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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Can there be a truth without a truthmaker?
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 08:57:43 -0500
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On 4/6/2024 2:34 AM, Mikko wrote:
> On 2024-04-06 01:26:49 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro said:
> 
>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 18:57:44 -0500, olcott wrote:
>>
>>> There are only two kinds of truth:
>>> (a) Analytic truth where expressions of language are true on the basis
>>> of their meaning. Example: "All dogs are animals."
>>>
>>> (b) Empirical truth, expressions of language that rely on sense data
>>> from the sense organs. Example: "There is a dog in my living room right
>>> now."
>>
>> Which kind of truth is that statement?
> 
> It is an analytic truth as it is true by the meaning of the words.
> In particular, Olcott doesn't use the word "truth" for any other
> kind, although someone else might say, e.g., that a moral truth is
> a truth, too.
> 

A moral "truth" is often no more than an opinion.
It seems to me that morality can only be correctly addressed
through consequentialism. Bereft of a harmful effect there
can be no wrong.

https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/consequentialism

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