Thread: What are your axioms?
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Old 05-27-2007   #36 (permalink)
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Default Re: What are your axioms?
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I propose an intermediate axiom:
- All living things have "value."
- Things that are good for a living thing are Good, but must be weighed against things that are good for other living things.

How does that sound?
A thing having a value implies a valuer. An axiom must stand on its own. Therefore, this cannot be an axiom.

TBH, this also removes the possibility of ethical axioms. Sorry.
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