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#52 — Finding Our Way in the Cosmos

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Truths of Morality Are Objective

There are two ways at that something can be objective, and i think you are in favour of one of them. That is, e, things can be objective in the sense that their truths about them just are truths about the other thing. Like, for example, chemistry. The truths of chemistry just are truth about physics - but still all statements about physics. Because physics is objective, then there's a different way of being objective: integes exist objectively because they're not physical objects. If something's ontologically objective, it exists quoth in the real world, whether or not anyone knows about it. And we can imagine a universe without any conscious creatures, and those facts would still be

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