On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 9:12:07 PM UTC-7, Ross Finlayson wrote:
On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 9:01:24 PM UTC-7, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
On Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 5:21:27 AM UTC-7, LEO_MMX wrote:
Please discuss.
Cheers,
LEO_MMX
How can ethics, morals, or truth be absolute?
It's usually called "truth", "right", and "good".
Pretty much any assertion of truth is a stipulation of truth is conditional, "if it is true if it is true if it is true ...", sort of "infinite conditional" in front
of what are abstractly "infinite quantifier", "for any here for any here for any here ...".
Then absolute truth is usually enough a constant that correlates all the conditionals.
Then, "all truth" is for some as simple as "a universe of the things".
Then "truth as truth, right as ethics, good as morals", often is ascribed to a prototype
of an ideal being called deity, or "G-d". Together that's "perfect", that "G-d is the perfect being".
Then, just like being scientists or theorists, is to "attain" to, the truth. Then there's also allowed an objective study of what the theory is.
Often enough the absolutes have their opposites, in various values and figures,
but, there's a usual notion of one or the other.
Of course studying the absolute and relative is as simple that they're opposites,
usually enough after the objective and subjective.
Then for example in physics that's often "point, local, global, or total",
or magnitudes versus differences, these kinds of things.
In mathematics for example there's potential and actual infinity,
which either way in effect is infinity.
Everybody has their own theory, not everybody that there is one.
It's like Einstein says, "those kids are going to sit on a park bench and lose track of time",
but that's just a relatively sensible metaphor in a world of physical absolutes,
and providing something for people who know relatively more about park benches to relay the metaphor.
Anyways it's not a zero-sum thing, neither two wrongs make a right nor a right and wrong
make nothing. Now, often enough it's immaterial, three left turns makes a right turn,
but "hope and a bottle of ketchup doesn't equal a hamburger. There's hope, though".
There's a thought experiment in philosophy. You make a boat, then over time, replace all the pieces in the boat, until each piece is replaced. Is it the same boat?
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