Comment on Philosophy meme
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months agoBecause for something to be considered objective the only necessary condition is that how something is lies entirely with the object itself and not with the person(s) looking at it. Whether or not we can measure it in actuality doesn’t matter for that definition.
Consider you could wire every existing person up to some kind of device that measures their physical and psychological pain and gives out a number, it doesn’t matter who looks at it, it would obviously always be the same number.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You think everyone has the same levels of physical and psychological pain tolerance? Nonsense. I have trigeminal neuralgia. I’m would bet my pain tolerance is objectively a hell of a lot higher than yours at this point.
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
Why does that matter? Than for you the device would simply give out a smaller number.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought the device was a way to measure objective truths. How could they be objective if our numbers are different for the same type of pain generation?
ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 11 months ago
Because the question isn’t whether or not each action causes the same pain in everyone, but whether or not it is theoretically measurable and comparable.