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Objectivity: people of normal vision as well as red-green-blind are trained in the same way.
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The company's method: to reward "Ouch" if the speaker shows further signs of discomfort. Trained in a way that the speaker says this even on stimuli that are not visible to her what she deems appropriate.
When the man visibly looks at something red, the utterance "red" is rewarded. With regard to "red" there is a symmetry of verifiability, which is missing in the sense of "Ouch". "Ouch" is to a greater degree subjective. "Ouch" is not independent of social training.
II 85
It is a bitter irony that such a vital distinction as that between good and evil should have no comparable claim to objectivity.
Everyone who deals with moral problems refers to causal relationships. The number of ethical axioms can be reduced to a minimum by causal feedback.
Utilitarianism is a remarkable example of such systematization.
For example, for the settlement of conflicts: Problem of white lie: if we agree that truthfulness is not an end in itself, but only a means to higher morality, the problem becomes a question of science or technology. On the one hand, the usefulness of language requires an overweight of truthfulness, on the other hand, truth can hurt.
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Truth/Quine.
II 113
Austin's introspection contrasts with linguistics. He gains objectivity through "group introspection" (Urmson). For example, an exotic linguist would probably first find out what we designate with "male dog". But he could never find out what "bachelors" are. He must question all test subjects individually and later apply a society-related summation.
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Mathematical objectivity: For example, the continuum hypothesis but also its negation can be added to the axioms of set theory. Do these results cast doubt on the objectivity of mathematical truth?
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Theory/Existence/Ontology/Quine: when a theory is about the radical question of what exists at all, quantification can only play the role of the arbitrator over questions of existence within the framework of a standardized and regulated form of language; a language that goes beyond truth functions (not, or, and).
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Existence/Quine.
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The objectivity of our knowledge remains rooted in our causal contact with external reality.
