• WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    9 months ago

    Absolute moral rules can be discovered through logical deduction.

    Can you elaborate?

    I don’t believe that’s possible unless you take an axiomatic approach which would obviously be a moral relativist approach since we can just disagree on the choice of axioms themselves and prevent any deduction.

    How do you overcome the is-ought problem?

      • WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        the regress problem states that all human knowledge is axiomatic.

        it is true for literally every single possible proposition.

        Okay so it’s clear you understand why I brought it up and that it’s true.

        I don’t know why the rest of the comment is phrased so angrily but if you’re just saying I’m right I don’t know how to respond to it lol.

        asking him to overcome this problem is so fucking far outside the scope of what you’re arguing about as to be ridiculous, you look silly.

        I wasn’t asking him to overcome it, I was astonished he would claim he could overcome it because it’s as obviously true as we both claim.

        Not sure why I look silly if you keep telling me how absolutely right I am in all contexts lol