[Byrne] > "Everything, in short, is a natural phenomenon, an aspect of the universe as > revealed by the natural sciences. In particular, morality is a natural > phenomenon. Moral facts or truths - that boiling babies is wrong, say - are > not additions to the natural world, they are already there in the natural > world, even if they are not explicitly mentioned in scientific theories."
[Ham] > The logic of this assertion is really a tautology, however, since if > everything is a natural phenomenon, morality is natural only because it is > "something". [Ham, reconstructed] a) everything is a natural phenomenon b) morality is something c) :. morality is a natural phenomenon Ham, I think you have Byrne's argument backward. I think he is saying: 1) morality is a natural phenomenon 2) astronomy is a natural phenomenon ... n) :. everything [ = all facts] is a natural phenomenon Craig moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
