Moral facts as a DOMAIN? A thought
Posted by NoumenalRealm on January 9, 2007
Let us grant that there are moral facts, say about eating meat or having sex. These facts are discrete. Together, they are similar in that they pertain to human conduct.
Let us move on to say THERE ARE A DOMAIN OF FACTS!
What if moral norms were an OBJECT in a MATHEMATICAL SET?
What implications does it have for OUR REALITY?
What if we can PROVE moral norms and their EXISTENCE as a UNIFIED set A PRIORI DEDUCTIVELY?
Most important question: What if we can prove moral norms and their existence using the conceptual tools of LOGIC, SEMANTICS/LINGUISTICS and MATHEMATICS only?
It may be that to answer these questions, this philosopher will have to start learning calculus, pure mathematics, mechanics, set theory, mathematical logic, computation, syntatics, philosophical and linguistic pragmatics and semantics and hell, even programming and artificial intelligence. I am reluctant to learn these things because I am an ignorant and hard-headed person; but if philosophy and the search for moral truth needs these avenues explored, then I’m the first one to hit the books. (I thought a philosopher just needed sociology! I may be very wrong about that…)
