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From: Puppet_Sock
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Why beauty is objective (the other post on this got too long-winded)
From: Puppet_Sock
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Why beauty is objective (the other post on this got too long-winded)
On Apr 9, 5:52 pm, "Robert J. Kolker"
wrote:
[snip]
> But it is opinion. For sure. Since beauty is NOT a property derived from
> physical laws, asserting X is beautiful is NOT asserting a fact. It is
> asserting an opinion.
Is that your opinion?
> Ethical and moral judgements are, for the same reason, also opinions.
Being a "property derived from physical laws" is not the meaning
of objective.
That they may be opinions is orthogonal to whether or not they
are objective.
Try again there Algorithm.
In my opinion, streudel is yummy, water is wet, fire is hot, and 2+2 4.
Socks
