Some very self-assured confusion from Ross Douthat: http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=18921
@CliftonsNotes @lmldias Speaking of intuitions -- what about the intuitions of logic and mathematics -- "scientifically definable" or not?
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@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 -
@lmldias They are the same arguments. -
@SamHarrisOrg (Please know that I am not endorsing@lmldias by questioning you about logic/math vis-a-vis intuition. He or she is an idiot.) -
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@SamHarrisOrg@CliftonsNotes@lmldias "Well being" can also be measured. Or one can stick ones head in the sand and pretend not. -
@AtlanticCanuck@SamHarrisOrg@CliftonsNotes The very idea that you can measure "well being" itself is ridiculous. -
@lmldias@SamHarrisOrg@CliftonsNotes That’s your opinion. You’re simply making an assertion (that it’s ridiculous). -
@AtlanticCanuck of course it is my opinion. Whose else would it be? Is your assertion that well being is measurable not your opinion? -
@lmldias@AtlanticCanuck It's a fact. -
@Ameriman1984 where is the thermometer of WB then?
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