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Why do people like PH et. al. [philosophical realists] insist abstract objects do not exist? First, There are Two Senses of Reality https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=40265 1. Framework & perspective based reality - mind-interdependent 2. Mind-independent reality, i.e. philosophical...

Emotions are an integral part of morality, e.g., love, as well as sympathy - projection of self in another's circumstances. These require sophisticated nervous systems. Yet, moral behaviour requires nothing but the natural selection to develop, e.g., ants, bees, termites. More awareness necessitate...

Actually, the notion that incest avoidance results from the biological risks of inbreeding is dubious. First of all, the risks of inbreeding are relatively slight, especially in primitive cultures in which the infant mortality rate is 50% any way. More important, a common marriage rule in many simp...

Here is an example [re incest], why Moral Objectivity has the advantage over other moral views. I once knew a mill owner whose children has born an incestuous child together. Their wood mill was some 10 miles from the nearest small town and his family had very few opportunities to meet members of th...

Incest Deterrence or Inbreeding Avoidance an inherent biological functions which is also one of the many moral element. Discuss?? Views?? I once knew a mill owner whose children has born an incestuous child together. Their wood mill was some 10 miles from the nearest small town and his family had v...

Morality refers to behaviours that facilitate certain strategies. Men call them 'moral' because they offer an advantage that is ingrained in social species. I'm not saying these behaviours ae moral, I'm saying humans call these behaviours moral, ensuring their continuance. They are "good"...

Notes: KIV

cont... [Kane B] what I want to say is that even when we're talking about concrete objects there's actually a kind of abstraction going on the abstract and the concrete are already kind of intertwined in a very deep way what’s the point of all of this I suppose then, Do Abstract Objects Exist? I wan...

[ Kane B ] now the sort of view constructing concrete that I have is that is that all of the concrete objects of our perception are actually just I mean we just make them up basically they're just made up right I mean you could if you want say I suppose that there just are no concrete objects that a...

Transcript from the Video above: ................. [ Kane B ] I'm a constructivist about all objects I would say that hands tables chairs planets and so on these objects exist only relative to particular perspectives and they exist in virtue of the fact that we are kind of arbitrarily drawing lines ...

Do Abstract Objects Exist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39p2ycM7HrY Kane B - a very popular YouTuber philosopher. His conclusion is; I'm a constructivist about all objects ........ I suppose then, Do Abstract Objects Exist? I want to say yeah actually I'm happy to say that abstract objects exist...

None of this is arbitrary but founded no objective reality. If it's founded on no objective reality, then it IS arbitrary, by definition. But you also said that they are "not fabricated by men, nor socially engineered." So where do they come from, and why are we obligated to follow them? ...

Notes: KIV

Notes: KIV I have argued [elsewhere] why the following moral elements are objective; 1. Oughtnot_ness to kill humans 2. Oughtnot_ness to torture and kill babies for pleasure https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?t=42185 3. Infanticide https://forum.philosophynow.org/viewtopic.php?p=707584#p7...

Incest Deterrence or Inbreeding Avoidance an inherent biological functions which is also one of the many moral element. The incest deterrence systems is a normative in all humans and justifiable via the sciences, it is scientifically objective [FSERC]; when inputted into a moral FSERC, it an objecti...