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Philosophy

ZombieHorde

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5. I wonder what idea an anti-realist would place before people.

Reply to ismnotwasm (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 15, 2013, 10:09 PM

Mar 2013

I don't know what my philosophical views are called, but I don't think anything, including people, have objective value, yet I personally value people very much.

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Immoral Nihilism? [View all] ismnotwasm Mar 2013 OP

So the Universe has a point of view pscot Mar 2013 #1

A turn of phrase, I'm sure ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #2

"They can't accommodate the moral datum that other people really matter" ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #3

If you are kind ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #4

I wonder what idea an anti-realist would place before people. ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #5

I have no idea ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #6

Help me plez. What's an "anti-realist"? nm rhett o rick Mar 2013 #7

Generally speaking, anti-realists deny objective reality. ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #8

Then an anti-realist must be confident as to what reality is. rhett o rick Mar 2013 #9

Realists are confident what reality is; anti-realists are confident what reality is not. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2013 #10

If you dont know what reality is, how can you know what it is not? nm rhett o rick Mar 2013 #11

Exactly ismnotwasm Mar 2013 #12