Newton’s theories give you a good way to predict what you’ll see when you throw a ball in the air, but it feels incorrect to me to say that Newton’s goal was to find order in our sensory experience of ball throwing.
I like this framing! The entire point of having a theory is to predict experimental data, and the only way I can collect data is through my senses.
Do you think that there are in fact ordered moral laws that we’re subject to, which our impulses respond to, and which we’re trying to hone in on?
You could construct predictive models of people’s moral impulses. I wouldn’t call these models laws, though.
I like this framing! The entire point of having a theory is to predict experimental data, and the only way I can collect data is through my senses.
You could construct predictive models of people’s moral impulses. I wouldn’t call these models laws, though.