- I hadn’t intended to frame the discussion in formal logic. The salient points in my thinking are:
- Many suppose that all value is subjective and mutable
- Most of these appear to suppose that a mind necessarily precedes value
- Serious metaphysicians are expected to accept the conclusion that no mind could exist antecedent to those produced by evolution (restatement of 1)
I believe:
- value exists in two denominations, true and false, in the fabric of reality, from which the two in amalgam generate all goods and evils (factual and moral).
- of the two, truth is by its nature logically objective and absolute; the false can be objective but never absolute
- Truth is found in things—propositions, scientific laws, semantics, etc. Some truth is attributed by human minds, but truth qua truth is discovered and preexists human minds.
- value requires a mind. This necessitates a mind preexisting human minds capable of possessing/imposing value on the reality we find ourselves in.
From this I generate MIV as a hypothesis to answer the questions, “what is value, where is it located, how does it operate”?
I suppose I’d frame it like this:
- value necessitates a mind for its existence
- though value can be imposed by human minds, it exists prior to the existence of human minds as a feature of the reality we find ourselves in
- value must have been designed into reality by a mind prior to human minds
This should be preceded by having provided evidence for the assumption in 2, but figured it would likely come up in discussion.