In other words, as long as you can come to an agreement on how to define “universal” or “objective” or “true” or “false” or “incoherent” in a technically correct manner.
As, for example, he does.
Here though many make the distinction between those things that are said to be true beyond that which any particular individual subject thinks is true and those things that someone believes are true “in their head” but either are or are or are not able to demonstrate are in fact true for all rational men and women.
All I propose is that we take these intellectual “world of words” definitions and intertwine them in a particular context where behaviors are chosen based on what we think – subjectively/subjunctively – is true.
Faust defines the words, but then is reluctant to note how those definitions have any actual use or exchange value in a context in which conflicting goods revolving around issues like gun control are discussed and debated on other threads.
What I do is to explore the definition and meaning that we give to words like objective, universal, true, false and incoherent insofar as an astute technical understanding of them may well be of limited use or exchange value “for all practical purposes” out in a particular context out in a particular world understood from a particular point of view.
Yes, in the either/or world. But my interest here is in exploring those things and relationships deemed by some to be objective, universal, true and coherent in the is/ought world.
You can use words like “nonsense” here until you are blue in the face, but it doesn’t dissuade the objectivists/universalists among us from behaving as though all conflicting goods must be resolved in their favor. See how far these “technical” arguments go with them.
Except out in the real world that we do live and interact in it is anything but bullshit among those who have the actual power to reward or punish others for choosing or not choosing the right behaviors. And not just pertaining to God.
Let’s take them up into the hallowed halls and let Faust set them straight. First, of course, by defining “straight” for them.