From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 20:00:19 BST
Sam,
Sam said:
He he he :-) I knew you'd pick me up on that.
All I mean is that value isn't just our opinions - even if we can't ever get out from behind our own opinions when we're talking about it. At least, that's my take on the MoQ.
Matt:
Ya' know, I just knew that was intended to provoke me ;-)
But, I'm not sure I see what the difference is between values and opinions. The only way I think you can make that difference to stick is to take a different position than Sellars' psychological nominalism i.e. that to think is to use language. The alternate slogan is that we cannot pull the human off the inhuman, that I don't think we can pull values off of opinions. I don't think we can isolate them. If we want to talk about values, we are talking about opinions, and vice versa.
The only way that the distinction avoids the temptation towards transcendence is if you read it on a continuum, that "values" is simply the moniker for well-established, agreed upon opinions and that "opinions" are more idiosyncratic.
Matt
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