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It's a fact that water is H2O. Objectively speaking, water is H2O. It's true that water is H2O. Those are assertions with a demonstrable truth-value. They claim something about reality that is or isn't the case. And because it demonstrably is the case, these factual assertions are true. Now do the s...

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The expression 'a true objective fact' is a complete mess. Could there be a false fact, or a subjective fact?

It's because what we call truth, facts and objectivity are what we say they are - that our saying an assertion is true doesn't mean it must be true - or even that it's factual at all.

I wonder why it is so difficult for anyone to understand how opinions and beliefs are converted into knowledge via specific institutions or framework and system of knowledge [FSK]. Here is a discussion on the issue; You had claimed that opinions/beliefs somehow become something other than opinions/...

Here is VA's claim: '...everything that was, is and will be the case in the universe CANNOT exist independently of the human conditions.' VA thinks this justifies the claim that morality is objective - that there are moral facts. Perhaps this is the argument: All facts - all features of reality - d...

Here is VA's claim: '...everything that was, is and will be the case in the universe CANNOT exist independently of the human conditions.' VA thinks this justifies the claim that morality is objective - that there are moral facts. Perhaps this is the argument: All facts - all features of reality - de...

My main contention re morality is that there are moral reality [physical and mental] and truths within morality-proper[as defined] which is to counter Peter's OP, So here are your factual assertions: 1 There is a physical and mental moral reality. 2 There is a 'morality-proper' (as defined). 3 Ther...

I tried to encourage him to not see philosophy as "playing stupid," which is what unfortunately a lot of people online seem to think is the gist of it (although it seems mostly engineering types who think this for some reason--but there are a ton of those folks talking about philosophy online), but...

You agree with the moral principle that no person should have the right to use another person's body without that person's consent. Yes, I do. A man belongs to himself. His life, liberty, and property are his. And, in my opinion, that principle trumps any special pleading exceptions. So abortion ri...

In my opinion, no person should have the right to use another person's body without that person's consent. I agree. But, in the case of pregnancy, a person didn't come along and say I'm climbin' in and usin' you, like it or not ...no, a man and woman engaged in behavior guaranteed to cause concepti...

And under my regime, respect for liberty would include women's control over their bodies and fertility. Right up to the end of week 12 she can as she likes. But she can't off a person without just cause...no one can, and -- by the end of week 12 -- wha she carries is a person. And respect for prope...

In that case you need to adjust your position on abortion. You have written that it is wrong, or whatever half arsed alternative to wrongness your "morality-proper" offers today. But all modern sovereign nations have decriminalised it and it is increasingly common therefore there must be an inheren...

I assume you think...your regime would be beneficent. My regime...that's funny...you made a funny... 👍 Yep, my regime would be beneficent for those who respect individual life, liberty, and property...not so much for those who don't. And under my regime, respect for liberty would include women's co...

I assume you think...your regime would be beneficent. My regime...that's funny...you made a funny... 👍 Yep, my regime would be beneficent for those who respect individual life, liberty, and property...not so much for those who don't. And under my regime, respect for liberty would include women's co...

The premises or axioms or goals of a moral system can only ever be matters of choice. Any fact proposed as a premise - such as a fact of human nature - can't entail or induce a moral conclusion, without begging the question. For these reasons, morality can't be objective. There are no moral facts, ...