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These Platonic abstractions are not the physical universe. For example, the standard natural numbers can somewhat be mapped to the physical universe, but nonstandard numbers cannot. If you map the standard natural numbers to the physical universe, then you must map the nonstandard numbers to nonsta...

VA. So - humans make reality in the way a carpenter makes a chair. You have got to be kidding. What is wrong with the carpenter made that specific real chair [a part of reality] existing within reality [all there is]? Meanwhile. 1 Reality is all there is. (You agree.) 2 We humans are part of that r...

P-Realism has the problem of doubts, skepticism, dualism raised as with Descartes, evil demon, matrix, correspondence theory of truth, others and worst of all - an independent God [theism]. Meanwhile. 1 Reality is all there is. (You agree.) 2 We humans are part of that reality, and in no way separa...

VA. So - humans make reality in the way a carpenter makes a chair. You have got to be kidding. What is wrong with the carpenter made that specific real chair [a part of reality] existing within reality [all there is]? Meanwhile. 1 Reality is all there is. (You agree.) 2 We humans are part of that r...

The above is for discussion and views are welcomed.

Notes: KIV

Thesis: Moral Relativists Condone Torturing Killing of Babies for Pleasure ... if you are a moral subjectivist or relativist, by definition, you MUST tolerate the moral maxim "babies can be tortured and killed for pleasure", if there are certain groups who insist such 'heinous' acts are mo...

My apprehension of morality has always been from the perspective of history, anthropology and cultural studies. My own education has included history and archaeology, but I also had an early grounding in science. For me it just beggars belief that morality and claims of scientific objectivity can a...

Agree with the above but there are more nuances and depths to the above. Yes. When the above moral norms are encoded to facilitate survival of the individual and the species, there must be some sort of neural algorithm supported by its physical neural correlates. Since the are so evident within hum...

First was the act....not the word. What man named 'morality' evolved and became innate because of offered an advantage. Humans encoded these behaviours, ascribing them to a divine source, as they did everything they could not understand. All social species behave morally. Mutations emerge to corrup...

My apprehension of morality has always been from the perspective of history, anthropology and cultural studies. My own education has included history and archaeology, but I also had an early grounding in science. For me it just beggars belief that morality and claims of scientific objectivity can a...

You are unable to see the big picture. Which so-called "big picture"? Generally, it is accepted that Godel's proof is valid within his defined axioms within mathematics. So, then where is the problem? Despite being valid, Godel's proof is not sound to be realistic as I had demonstrated. C...

How to sharpen up VA's argument? Premise: We humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways. (Note: This sentence is a description of a feature of reality, or a state-of-affairs. And it has a truth-value.) Conclusion: Therefore, reality is nothing more than the ways we humans perc...

How to sharpen up VA's argument? Premise: We humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways. (Note: This sentence is a description of a feature of reality, or a state-of-affairs. And it has a truth-value.) Conclusion: Therefore, reality is nothing more than the ways we humans perc...

How to sharpen up VA's argument? Premise: We humans have to perceive, know and describe reality in human ways. (Note: This sentence is a description of a feature of reality, or a state-of-affairs. And it has a truth-value.) Conclusion: Therefore, reality is nothing more than the ways we humans perc...

Notes: KIV