05-02-2013, 09:56 PM
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I'll be benched for a week if I keep these shenanigans up.
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Re: A Revolution in Thought: Part Two
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Originally Posted by Spacemonkey
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Okay. Where does Lessans define 'greater satisfaction'? And is his satisfaction principle a tautology?
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How many times do I have to repeat that whatever choice we make is in the direction of greater satisfaction so in that sense it is tautological... |
This is still ambiguous between being universal and being necessary. Here are two sentences to compare:-
a) Whatever object you select, it will be made of atoms.
b) Whatever circle you draw, it will not have corners.
Both are universal, but only the second is necessary and tautological. The second is true by meaning, whereas the first could have turned out to be false, as we can imagine a possible universe where things are not made of atoms. So which does his satisfaction principle compare to? Is it universal but contingent like (a)? Or is it universal and tautological like (b)? |
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Bump.
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