From: Simon Magson (twix_570@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 2004 - 20:55:13 BST
>You used the example of being thirsty and drinking (drinking is
>observable, your being thirsty isn't
Everybody knows when they are thirsty, it is completely observable by
anyone. Philosophy should start with these simple observations and not some
physiological theory resulting from a chain of deductions. Thirst, like
hunger, pain, heavy, light, hard, soft are all present and immediate in the
real world from which we develop our rhetoric and start philosophising.
>The actions that stem from values are observable but values are not so
>don't feel comfortable with "value is empirical" statement.
The lack of comfort you are describing is itself an empirical value. It
seems you have been conditioned to perceive value in, and ascribe existence
to, only that which you can see.
SM
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