This three-part (Moral) Truth Litmus tells us when a particular (moral/ethical) theory or model is artificial (versus anchored in or descriptive of reality), when that theory or model fails any part of the litmus:
(L1) Part 1: Substantial (Universal Subjectivity, or Objectivity) Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must hold for all or none. (person=person)
(L2) Part 2: Existential Demonstration Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must be demonstrated in reality, not created in divergence from reality. (existential import)
(L3) Part 3: Essential Question Aspect: A (moral) theory/model must define the answer to a question (“How and why should a person(s) be or behave with the other and self (person[s])?”).
If no theory/model passes all three parts of the litmus, there is no (moral) truth.
Being discovered in/by every culture in history is good for part 1 (treat every person/other as a person/self, or the golden rule), but to pass part 2, you need a being whose essence is demonstrated (exists its essence), because no mere human (individually or culturally) does that.
Compare: the three axioms in Theatetus, Newton’s laws of motion, and the three laws of thermodynamics… and my entire thing on harmonic triads.
Meno_ (now posting as @Meno4) referred me to this deep in the unsearchable caverns of ILP & a second listening (well… review of slides—I really need to rewatch) unveils a triad:
assertion (yellow), direction (blue), and force (red)
If you consider them as distinctions within a whole, rather than as incompatibly dichotomous, he (Michael Schmitz) may agree they form a triad.
red: ~1, 1 empty/full (never/impossible) or (always/necessary)
blue: 0 (default good/baseline) (self=other)
yellow: % anywhere in the middle (contingent) “increasing toward fullness or decreasing/nihilating away from fullness”
in order to know where you’re at, you need to know the end that has always been
complete before it started
heh
Blue CHOICE: Independent variable: The one the experimenter changes.
Yellow MALLEABLE CHARACTER: Dependent variable: What changes in response to the independent variable.
Red STAYS: Controlled variables: Factors that are kept constant to ensure accurate results.
The definitions are generic… googled.
Got it, but how!? (?!)
Utellme