Some very self-assured confusion from Ross Douthat: http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=18921
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@SamHarrisOrg is this a trick question or an admission that health still operates with subjective intuitions? -
@lmldias I think you'll find that your own, honest answer to@SamHarrisOrg's question will be instructive. -
@CliftonsNotes@lmldias Speaking of intuitions -- what about the intuitions of logic and mathematics -- "scientifically definable" or not? -
@SamHarrisOrg But those aren't "intuitions" so much as definitional truths. Not really as analogous to morality or medicine. (Or is it?) -
@CliftonsNotes logic/math depends entirely on intuitions -- e.g. How do you know that if A > B, and B > C, then A > C? -
@SamHarrisOrg@CliftonsNotes logic is deduced from simple axioms and first principles. All this relativist talk almost makes me absolutist -
@lmldias@CliftonsNotes Relativist? The whole point of The Moral Landscape was to argue against relativism. -
@SamHarrisOrg the best point in ML is the argument against is-ought, the worst is the project of scienticizing morality - 5 more replies
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