Re: MD Re: Is Morality relative?

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 23:23:10 GMT

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    Platt, approximate is not the word I would use, but yes.

    However precise there is always some residual uncertainty, except in closed
    cases with simple logical / mathematical relationships, where perhaps the
    certainty is 100%.
    Of course in 80% of the real life cases the residual uncertainty could
    probably be vanishingly small for all practical purposes.

    But, yes.

    Go on, do your worst.

    Ian
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    From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
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    Subject: Re: MD Re: Is Morality relative?

    >
    > Ian writes:
    > > No Platt,
    > >
    > > No single context is absolute.
    > > The sum total of all contexts is approaching absolute, by axiomatic
    > > definition of the maths "sum total of all".
    > > But unless we are able to envisage literally all contexts, this is only
    > > "approaching" absolute - pragmatically is always an unknown space
    beyond -
    > > except in mathematical / logical thought experiments, like the previous
    > > sentence.
    >
    > Then am I correct to assume that for you, pragmatically, truth is always
    > approximate, i.e., never 100% certain, including any statement you make
    > about the nature of truth?
    >
    > Platt
    >
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