The pixel activations on the screen aren't subjective, though. (And neither would be marks on paper.) What they look like to someone is subjective, of course.Belinda wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 10:48 amThey are both true, Henry's quale and your explanation of what makes 'text' a different colour. They are both true and viewed from either the subjective or the objective perspective. No doubt if a neuroscientist inspected Henry's brain when he is experiencingTerrapin Station wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 7:24 pmBut what makes text a particular color isn't what it looks like to an individual. That can be why that individual calls it the color they call it, but that's a different issue.Belinda wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:41 pm
Henry Quirk obviously means the quale that he calls "red" and which he reasonably presumes other people experience like he himself experiences.I dare say Plato too thought his qualia were Forms of reality. On the other hand, Terrapin Station refers to the objectively verifiable markers of redness.the scientist would correlate brain changes with Henry's mind - quale.red
What could make morality objective?
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Henry's quale
I didn't say jack shit about quales...
I didn't say jack shit about quales...
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 3:11 pm WHAT MAKES THIS RED
There's a consistent sumthin' in what we call red, a sumthin', in the light, we all, barring defect in eye or brain, see and recognize. We apply placeholders (красный, 빨간, rouge, red, etc.) to this sumthin'.
The placeholders change, the sumthin' remains the same.
We create the placeholders; we recognize the sumthin'.
The placeholders represent a communal effort to talk about and understand the sumthin'; the sumthin' exists independently of our effort to understand it or talk about it.
Our understanding of the sumthin' can improve or worsen, we may be right or wrong about the sumthin', but the sumthin' is unmoved, unchanged, by our thinkin', measurements, and assessments.
Just like moral fact.
Gimme my goddamned already, cuz I done good.
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Your anti-intellectualism is quite cute as it results in entertaining and concise ways of expressing yourselfhenry quirk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 04, 2021 3:11 pm Henry's quale
I didn't say jack shit about quales...
henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 03, 2021 3:11 pm WHAT MAKES THIS RED
There's a consistent sumthin' in what we call red, a sumthin', in the light, we all, barring defect in eye or brain, see and recognize. We apply placeholders (красный, 빨간, rouge, red, etc.) to this sumthin'.
The placeholders change, the sumthin' remains the same.
We create the placeholders; we recognize the sumthin'.
The placeholders represent a communal effort to talk about and understand the sumthin'; the sumthin' exists independently of our effort to understand it or talk about it.
Our understanding of the sumthin' can improve or worsen, we may be right or wrong about the sumthin', but the sumthin' is unmoved, unchanged, by our thinkin', measurements, and assessments.
Just like moral fact.
Gimme my goddamned already, cuz I done good.
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Question: what could make morality objective?
Cute, anti-intellectual answer: moral facts.
QED.
Cute, anti-intellectual answer: moral facts.
QED.
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Your anti-intellectualism is quite cute as it results in entertaining and concise ways of expressing yourself
What?
What?
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Huh?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:41 am Question: what could make morality objective?
Cute, anti-intellectual answer: moral facts.
QED.
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You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective. And that's tautological. Sorry if that's not what you meant.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:13 pmHuh?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:41 am Question: what could make morality objective?
Cute, anti-intellectual answer: moral facts.
QED.
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I'm not sure how we'd answer without simply describing what objective morality would amount to. A short answer there would be "moral facts."Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:34 pmYou seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective. And that's tautological. Sorry if that's not what you meant.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:13 pmHuh?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:41 am Question: what could make morality objective?
Cute, anti-intellectual answer: moral facts.
QED.
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You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective. And that's tautological. Sorry if that's not what you meant.
Jeez...
We got B pontificatin' about quales, and you jibberin' about whatever, and both of attributin' it to me.
All I said, recently, as an answer to Skep's question, is: the sumthin' we call red is real.
We see it in the light, and label it.
It is, as you would say, a feature of reality.
At the end of my lil post I threw in the jab about moral fact cuz the sumthin' we call moral fact (what I call ownness) is as real as the sumthin' we label red.
All this manure about quales and whatnot, all that's on you people.
Jeez...
We got B pontificatin' about quales, and you jibberin' about whatever, and both of attributin' it to me.
All I said, recently, as an answer to Skep's question, is: the sumthin' we call red is real.
We see it in the light, and label it.
It is, as you would say, a feature of reality.
At the end of my lil post I threw in the jab about moral fact cuz the sumthin' we call moral fact (what I call ownness) is as real as the sumthin' we label red.
All this manure about quales and whatnot, all that's on you people.
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Quite. The something we call red is real. And you say there are real somethings that we call morally right and morally wrong, which are just as real what we call red. So you're saying morality is objective because there are moral features of reality, such as the wrongness of slavery.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 6:35 pm You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective. And that's tautological. Sorry if that's not what you meant.
Jeez...
We got B pontificatin' about quales, and you jibberin' about whatever, and both of attributin' it to me.
All I said, recently, as an answer to Skep's question, is: the sumthin' we call red is real.
We see it in the light, and label it.
It is, as you would say, a feature of reality.
At the end of my lil post I threw in the jab about moral fact cuz the sumthin' we call moral fact (what I call ownness) is as real as the sumthin' we label red.
All this manure about quales and whatnot, all that's on you people.
Don't be coy, Henry. Own it. You think that what makes morality objective is that there are moral facts. I don't understand your reluctance.
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not bein' coy...
To be clear, this is what I say...
Ownness (a man belongs to himself) is a fact (a true statement; one that jibes with reality).
Now, morality is all about the rightness or wrongness of a man's intent, his choices, his actions and conduct, as he interacts with, or impinges on, another. Seems to me, the validity of a morality rests solely with how well the assessment of wrongness or rightness agrees with reality, or with statements about reality.
So, a moral fact is a true statement; one that aligns with the reality of a man (not his personality, or opinion, or whims, but what is fundamental to him, ownness).
Can I say slavery is wrong is a moral fact?
Yes.
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And: mebbe I'm wrong but, this, what you wrote...
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position, yeah?
Ownness (a man belongs to himself) is a fact (a true statement; one that jibes with reality).
Now, morality is all about the rightness or wrongness of a man's intent, his choices, his actions and conduct, as he interacts with, or impinges on, another. Seems to me, the validity of a morality rests solely with how well the assessment of wrongness or rightness agrees with reality, or with statements about reality.
So, a moral fact is a true statement; one that aligns with the reality of a man (not his personality, or opinion, or whims, but what is fundamental to him, ownness).
Can I say slavery is wrong is a moral fact?
Yes.
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And: mebbe I'm wrong but, this, what you wrote...
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position, yeah?
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Here's your claim, Henry, as I see it: a true statement is one that describes reality correctly. So if a woman owns herself, then the statement 'a woman own herself' is true.henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:46 pm To be clear, this is what I say...
Ownness (a man belongs to himself) is a fact (a true statement; one that jibes with reality).
Now, morality is all about the rightness or wrongness of a man's intent, his choices, his actions and conduct, as he interacts with, or impinges on, another. Seems to me, the validity of a morality rests solely with how well the assessment of wrongness or rightness agrees with reality, or with statements about reality.
So, a moral fact is a true statement; one that aligns with the reality of a man (not his personality, or opinion, or whims, but what is fundamental to him, ownness).
Can I say slavery is wrong is a moral fact?
Yes.
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And: mebbe I'm wrong but, this, what you wrote...
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position, yeah?
But then, why is the statement 'a woman should own herself' true? What reality does it describe correctly?
I don't think it describes reality - the way things are - at all, correctly or incorrectly. Instead, it expresses a moral opinion about the way things should or ought to be. And that's why there are no moral facts.
I know we don't agree about this - but if you'd care to try to refute my argument, please do.
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So, do you agree, Pete, this...
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position?
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position?
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Ah--somehow I missed that you actually were arguing for objective morality. How would you say that extramental facts like "slavery is wrong" obtain, exactly? Where is that fact located, or what is it a property of?henry quirk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:46 pm To be clear, this is what I say...
Ownness (a man belongs to himself) is a fact (a true statement; one that jibes with reality).
Now, morality is all about the rightness or wrongness of a man's intent, his choices, his actions and conduct, as he interacts with, or impinges on, another. Seems to me, the validity of a morality rests solely with how well the assessment of wrongness or rightness agrees with reality, or with statements about reality.
So, a moral fact is a true statement; one that aligns with the reality of a man (not his personality, or opinion, or whims, but what is fundamental to him, ownness).
Can I say slavery is wrong is a moral fact?
Yes.
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And: mebbe I'm wrong but, this, what you wrote...
You seem to be saying that moral facts are what make morality objective
...doesn't exactly jibe with my position, yeah?
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Seems to me the bit up-thread is clear.
What's unclear for you?
What's unclear for you?