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If there is no way to have falsifiable ideas, that leaves only one way to settle disputes: war. If there is no objective reality then might makes right. Ultima
by api 5y ago
If there is no way to have falsifiable ideas, that leaves only one way to settle disputes: war. If there is no objective reality then might makes right.
Ultimately I don’t agree with your assertion about physics and objectivity. If QM turns out to show that non-locality is real or that the state of things is probabilistic at the quantum level, then that simply changes our definition of what objective reality is. It doesn’t change the fact that there is a reality or that it has a nature.
Hell if ghosts and psi are real there is still an objective reality. It’s just one that includes ghosts and psi… and not one that doesn’t. In this hypothetical reality someone denying the existence of ghosts would be wrong, not just someone with a “different point of view.”
The real issue is that is/ought is a hard problem that has not yet been satisfactorily solved. Both the “woke” left and the “alt-right” punt the issue by declaring a desired outcome and then failing to specify a way to get there or falling back on force.
“Nothing is true. This is how I want it to be. Now where is my gun?”