What could make morality objective?
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Re: What could make morality objective?
I have this question which I want to ask the OP: What do you mean
Re: What could make morality objective?
Potato/potaoh. If we accept your premise (how do we know it's true?) then that is a sufficient condition for disposing with Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes's conception of objectivity.
How do you know when to use the term "objective" if you don't know when you are expressing something about "external" reality?
It's pretty damn obvious Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes is misrepresenting the way he uses the term "objective".
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Re: What could make morality objective?
May I suggest you read the OP? Happy to clarify anything.Agent Smith wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:25 am I have this question which I want to ask the OP: What do you mean
However - objectivity is to do with facts, so perhaps I should have asked 'Are there moral facts?' instead.
However, for a long time now, VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have been questioning the nature of what we call facts and, therefore, objectivity: facts are inventions, and any invention can be a fact, so there can be moral facts.
Questions. Why can we not know what reality is, and therefore describe it correctly? Why must reality not be the way we perceive, know and describe factually? If we can't know what reality is, how can we know what reality is not?
VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have swallowed a shitty premise, which is why only shit comes out.
Re: What could make morality objective?
Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes keeps strawmanning everything said. It's difficult and incredibly painful to attempt to correct somebody so fucking stupid.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:10 amMay I suggest you read the OP? Happy to clarify anything.Agent Smith wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:25 am I have this question which I want to ask the OP: What do you mean
However - objectivity is to do with facts, so perhaps I should have asked 'Are there moral facts?' instead.
However, for a long time now, VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have been questioning the nature of what we call facts and, therefore, objectivity: facts are inventions, and any invention can be a fact, so there can be moral facts.
Questions. Why can we not know what reality is, and therefore describe it correctly? Why must reality not be the way we perceive, know and describe factually? If we can't know what reality is, how can we know what reality is not?
VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have swallowed a shitty premise, which is why only shit comes out.
If the choice of signifiers is arbitrary...
What is "it" that makes any given signifier "correct" or "incorrect" in relation to any given signified?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:40 pm ... signifiers are arbitrary, and that signs don't magically contain signifieds...
What is "it" that passes judgment of "correctness" or "incorrectness" on the relationship between signifiers and signifieds?
WHY is water a "correct" signifier for the signified Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes calls "water"?
WHY is chicken an "incorrect" signifier for the signified Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes calls "water"?
You've been caught with your pants down peddling a linguistic ought.
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Re: What could make morality objective?
Why is 'water is H2O' a true factual assertion, given the way we use those signs in context? Mmm.
Why is 'water is not H2O' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Why is 'water is chicken' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Ah. The amazing usefulness of philosophy.
Why is 'water is not H2O' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Why is 'water is chicken' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Ah. The amazing usefulness of philosophy.
Re: What could make morality objective?
We who? You keep alluding to this abstract "we". Do you need to see a psychiatrist? Are you hearing voices in your head?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:36 am Why is 'water is H2O' a true factual assertion, given the way we use those signs in context? Mmm.
Why is 'water is not H2O' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Why is 'water is chicken' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
Ah. The amazing usefulness of philosophy.
And thus Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes admits he is making judgments about the "correct" and "incorrect" use of language based on how "we" use signs.
He's not even ashamed to commit the fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
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Re: What could make morality objective?
You can't have two people lavishing this much attention on Skepdick in the same thread, or even on the same day in different ones. It gets him overexcited and he has to write cunt all the time. There will be tears before bedtime, you mark my words.
Re: What could make morality objective?
There's a feature in Mac OS where I just type "pdh" and magic happens! It's a time-saver!FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:45 am You can't have two people lavishing this much attention on Skepdick in the same thread, or even on the same day in different ones. It gets him overexcited and he has to write cunt all the time. There will be tears before bedtime, you mark my words.
Yay for arbitrary signifiers!
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Re: What could make morality objective?
See? You guys let him get so frisky he set up a hotkey to swear at you with.
Stop messing with him, it's not nice. It's nap time for skepdick.
Stop messing with him, it's not nice. It's nap time for skepdick.
Re: What could make morality objective?
It's so cute when you start projecting your theory of mind onto me.FlashDangerpants wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:57 am See? You guys let him get so frisky he set up a hotkey to swear at you with.
Stop messing with him, it's not nice. It's nap time for skepdick.
Is that what causes you to swear? Being frisky? Heh.
Also, "frisky" people don't take naps, you dolt
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Re: What could make morality objective?
Don't you realize 'context' is only possible within some kind of human contexts ultimately, i.e. human conditions.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:36 am Why is 'water is H2O' a true factual assertion, given the way we use those signs in context? Mmm.
In this case, 'water is H2O' is a true factual assertion as a scientific fact within a human based scientific FSK and in no other context.
It is a false factual assertion ONLY within the context of the science-chemistry FSK.Why is 'water is not H2O' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
In a pretend-FSK, 'water is not H2O' maybe a relatively true factual assertion; because a pretended FSK has no credibility and reliability in contrast to the science-FSK as a standard, whatever facts it claim could just be illusory and mere fiction.
Same as the above.Why is 'water is chicken' a false factual assertion, given the way, etc? Mmm.
The usefulness of philosophy is understanding the mechanics of how FSKs work and acknowledges their respective limitations.Ah. The amazing usefulness of philosophy.
There are some good philosophers who acknowledge their theological-FSK generates "fake-facts" e.g. God exists as real, but they nevertheless insist on believing it based on faith because it has therapeutic salvific values.
You are doing bastardized & corrupt philosophy and is delusional when you dogmatically and ideologically insist your 'what is fact' is the absolute truth while other views on 'what is fact' are nonsense.
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Re: What could make morality objective?
Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:10 amMay I suggest you read the OP? Happy to clarify anything.Agent Smith wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:25 am I have this question which I want to ask the OP: What do you mean
However - objectivity is to do with facts, so perhaps I should have asked 'Are there moral facts?' instead.
However, for a long time now, VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have been questioning the nature of what we call facts and, therefore, objectivity: facts are inventions, and any invention can be a fact, so there can be moral facts.
Questions. Why can we not know what reality is, and therefore describe it correctly? Why must reality not be the way we perceive, know and describe factually? If we can't know what reality is, how can we know what reality is not?
VA and sidekick dick-for-brains have swallowed a shitty premise, which is why only shit comes out.
PH do not realize his insistence there are no moral facts, no moral objectivity, i.e. no Moral Normativity, except there are is only Moral Relativism is 'SELF-REFUTING'.Skepdick wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 8:27 am Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes keeps strawmanning everything said. It's difficult and incredibly painful to attempt to correct somebody so fucking stupid.
If the choice of signifiers is arbitrary...What is "it" that makes any given signifier "correct" or "incorrect" in relation to any given signified?Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:40 pm ... signifiers are arbitrary, and that signs don't magically contain signifieds...
What is "it" that passes judgment of "correctness" or "incorrectness" on the relationship between signifiers and signifieds?
WHY is water a "correct" signifier for the signified Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes calls "water"?
WHY is chicken an "incorrect" signifier for the signified Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes calls "water"?
You've been caught with your pants down peddling a linguistic ought.
The fact is;
"PH insistence there are no moral facts, no moral objectivity, i.e. no Moral Normativity, except there are is only Moral Relativism"
is itself an ought and normativity, i.e. a epistemic normativity.
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Re: What could make morality objective?
To describe the ways we use signs such as words is not to claim that we ought to use them in those ways - and certainly not to claim that it's morally right to use them in those ways, and morally wrong not to.
And Iwannaplato is right: to say there are no moral facts is not to say there ought to be no moral facts.
And Iwannaplato is right: to say there are no moral facts is not to say there ought to be no moral facts.
Re: What could make morality objective?
Peter "Dumb Cunt" Holmes really struggles to grasp the implications of his own words.Peter Holmes wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:50 am To describe the ways we use signs such as words is not to claim that we ought to use them in those ways
Who is this mystical "we" you keep appealing to? I am super serious - are you hearing voices in your head?
If your description of the way "we" use signs doesn't account for the way I use signs then your "we" doesn't apply to me. So in the exact same sense in which you are using the word "wrong" - your description of "the way we use signs" is wrong. We minus me ≠ We.
A proper acount of the way "we" use signs would be a Pareto distribution enumerating the multitude of use-cases for any given sign.
Now explain to me why any use of the sign "wrong" (which doesn't coincide with the way you claim "we" use the sign "wrong") is wrong, because it necessarily follows from your own stupidity that there is a right and a wrong way to use the signs "right" and "wrong".
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Re: What could make morality objective?
Here are more of those damnably indeterminate signs.
Here are more of those damnably indeterminate signs.
Here are more of those damnably indeterminate signs.
And here's one more damnably indeterminate sign.
Yawn.
Here are more of those damnably indeterminate signs.
Here are more of those damnably indeterminate signs.
And here's one more damnably indeterminate sign.
Yawn.