In one room, a child is about to die. In the other room, a demon is about to increase unemployment in your country by 1% for 3 years. You can either save the child or kill the demon, but not both. You:
In this case, the thing isn't a chemical, but your moral intuition. To understand more about it, we can put it into strange situations it doesn't normally find itself in to learn how it behaves.
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Your 2+2=5 question doesn't really involve any principles with unknown or highly detailed properties, so I don't see how it's comparable.
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Re: Oxygen. We can design possible tests - which iff actually performed - provide empirical evidence like you said. Macroeconomic demons don't AFAIK actually exist nor are even possible under sane metaphysical assumptions.
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