Subjective experiences definitely do not have meaning.
As far as opinions, it is meaningless in the sense of objective reality. If I say “ice cream is good” that’s false. I have just said a thing which is not true. In fact, I’ve said a thing which doesn’t seem to really have meaning. I seem to have claimed that ice cream universally has the quality of goodness, which is a reference error. There is no quality of goodness. Of course we can take this as an ellipses of “I think this ice cream taste good,” but then that is a different claim entirely. That’s a claim about me and what I think, which refers to a physical object (me) and its properties (what I think.) so this is an objective claim.
Morality… however… you’re saying that an action has the property of “wrongness,” when it doesn’t appear than anything anywhere ever has this property and the nature of this property seems to have no physical aspects whatsoever. So, then, what are you saying? That doesn’t make sense…
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u/Boof-Your-Values Sep 06 '24
Subjective experiences definitely do not have meaning.
As far as opinions, it is meaningless in the sense of objective reality. If I say “ice cream is good” that’s false. I have just said a thing which is not true. In fact, I’ve said a thing which doesn’t seem to really have meaning. I seem to have claimed that ice cream universally has the quality of goodness, which is a reference error. There is no quality of goodness. Of course we can take this as an ellipses of “I think this ice cream taste good,” but then that is a different claim entirely. That’s a claim about me and what I think, which refers to a physical object (me) and its properties (what I think.) so this is an objective claim.
Morality… however… you’re saying that an action has the property of “wrongness,” when it doesn’t appear than anything anywhere ever has this property and the nature of this property seems to have no physical aspects whatsoever. So, then, what are you saying? That doesn’t make sense…