Here is a discussion on the issue;
Any comments on the above?Veritas Aequitas wrote: ↑Fri Apr 16, 2021 2:18 amI have already explained that a "1000" times.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:37 am You had claimed that opinions/beliefs somehow become something other than opinions/beliefs that individuals have once they become institutionalized. You claimed this. I'm challenging you to support the claim.
Explain how they become something other than opinions/beliefs that individuals have once they become institutionalized. Or retract the claim.
Here is another example,
Supposed you as a scientist have a hunch or hypothesis thesis about some scientific theory, say THEORY-A.
That would only be your opinion or at best belief.
Then you did the necessary experiments in accordance to the scientific methods, you proved your hypothesis and your peers reconfirmed the results of your experiments and thus confirm your THEORY-A is true.
Thereafter you published the above research in a recognized scientific journals and held various press conference to announce the newly discovered knowledge.
This is the institutionalization [science] of your belief into scientific knowledge which then in independent from you and all other individuals.
Now that THEORY-A is accepted and confirmed, it is no more YOUR opinions nor belief but rather THEORY-A is a scientific truth from the scientific institution and belongs to the scientific institution.
The above is how opinions and beliefs of individual[s] become objective knowledge when they are institutionalized.
That is how all objective scientific knowledge came about as converted from personal opinions and beliefs via the scientific institution.
Get it?
My point the the above process is the same for all institution of knowledge or framework and system of knowledge [FSK].
Therefore the moral FSK can convert personal opinions and beliefs into moral knowledge with the provision the necessary process of verifying and justifying the evidence empirically and philosophically.