OT: Objective moral truth

Fyron · #1 December 14th, 2004, 12:28 AM

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deccan said:
According to your idea, if you want to prove 10 + 1 = 11, you would need to draw 10 objects, add one more, and then count them all again to prove that there is really 11, and you would need to do that all the time for every number.

Nope. Think, proof by induction.

deccan · #2 December 14th, 2004, 02:45 AM

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Imperator Fyron said:
Nope. Think, proof by induction.

To my mind and within the context of everything that I have already posted above, the proof by induction falls squarely in the realm of the transcendental in that it is not obviously true why it is valid even within an (arbitrarily) assumed naturalistic framework. In short, to employ it would be to rely on the possession of transcendental properties (timelessness, externality etc.) which was what I was trying to avoid doing in the case of mathematics in the first place.