#conventionalism

[macrolit]

Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Susan B. Anthony

[wisdomfish]

Like ethical subjectivism, ethical conventionalism denies the existence of absolute, unchanging, universal moral standards. A statement typical of the ethical conventionalist position would be: “Whatever a person’s culture says right is right.”

Samples, Kenneth Richard. ‘Without a Doubt: Answering the 20 Toughest Faith Questions. p. 232

[kelskskreed]

Who’s cursing anyhow?

Ignorance persists at fear of uttered noise: words don’t curse. Example: A child shouts, “Don’t be an asshole!”, to a rude person in the sto

This is one of the first examples of when I became aware of the truth as a young lad. Therefore, I feel it’s pertinent that this be the first “Kreed”.

Perspective is the mighty force that guides how we act. We see the world through the windows of our own eyes. We don’t often place ourselves behind the eyes of others, nor does the average have the curiosity to know what their view is like. Upon self realization of perspective I began to look at the world differently. All is never what it seems.

Perhaps, as it happened for myself, this will be the example that leads to your own discoveries. Perhaps you have been on this adventure all along.

- Kelsk 🍻

[guyfarmer]

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[itsmightyfunny]

One is tempted to justify rules of grammar by sentences like “But there are really four primary colors.” And if we say that the rules of grammar are arbitrary, that is directed against the possibility of this justification. Yet can’t it after all be said that the grammar of color words characterizes the world as it actually is? …Doesn’t grammar put the primary colors together because there is a kind of similarity between them?…Of which in that case I can say: “Yes, that is the way we look at things” or “We just do want to form this sort of picture.” For if I say “there is a particular similarity among the primary colors” - whence do I derive the idea of this similarity? Just as the idea ‘primary color’ is nothing else but 'blue or red or green or yellow" is not the idea of that similarity too given simply by the four colors?

Wittgenstein

[itsmightyfunny]

There is nothing there for a higher intelligence to know - except what future generations will do. We know as much as God does in mathematics.

Wittgenstein

[repinipi]

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes timely reviews of scholarly philosophy books.

[A] theory of pure mathematics is not true by convention simply because it is not true at all. Hilbert's point is that in the sense in which it is usually intended, 'true' is not properly applied to the theories of pure mathematics. When Hilbert argues that in mathematics truth and existence mean the same as consistency, this must be understood in the context of a broader dialectical argument against the tradition, represented perhaps most famously among his contemporaries by Frege: Call such theories true if you wish, but recognize that this can only mean that they are consistent.

Poincaré's views on theories of pure mathematics, some of which he thought of as definitional, are not without interest. But it's doubtful that these views have anything to do with the conventionalist doctrines that we typically associate with him. Their point is not so much that the axioms of pure mathematical theories are conventions, as that Induction is not a convention but a principle that must be recognized as synthetic a priori.

Since on Carnap's reconstruction of the language of science, theoretical terms are treated essentially as variables, Carnap can maintain that the Ramsey sentence of a theory gives a suitable reconstruction of its factual content. Similarly for Poincaré, geometrical primitives are treated like variables, and like variables, they are not restricted to a fixed interpretation. Just as in Carnap's reconstruction the interpretation of the observational vocabulary does not fix the interpretation of the theoretical vocabulary, so also for Poincaré, the interpretation of the vocabulary of physics does not fix the interpretation of the geometrical primitives: the interpretation of 'path of a light ray' may be fully determined, but that of 'geodesic of space-time' is not.

[wittgensteinscockatiel]

Quine Pillages Analyticity

Abstract:

In his article Two Dogmas of Empiricsm, and book Word and Object, W. E. V. Quine wages war with a centuries-old doctrine that is essential to Kant’s (and others’) metaphysics: Analyticity. The epistemological divisions between synthetic and analytic truths, he argues, and the fanatic insistence upon reductionism in contemporary science, are ill founded. It is not that the line…

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