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**vicgirl** · 10-08-2010, 04:49 PM

Why wouldn't an empirical examination of our moral senses be best carried out not through mathematical modelling but instead by observation of human beings and our evolutionary kin, since our moral senses are not derived logically, but emotionally? 'Observation' is always quantifiable in an empirical examination. You'd have to define, "happy" "sad", etc. Fr'instance if the state of being happy were correlated with the secretion of a neurotransmitter, you could measure that level of the transmitter, and record responses. That is an empirical observation.

10-08-2010, 04:49 PM	#34
vicgirl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 363 Senior Member	Why wouldn't an empirical examination of our moral senses be best carried out not through mathematical modelling but instead by observation of human beings and our evolutionary kin, since our moral senses are not derived logically, but emotionally? 'Observation' is always quantifiable in an empirical examination. You'd have to define, "happy" "sad", etc. Fr'instance if the state of being happy were correlated with the secretion of a neurotransmitter, you could measure that level of the transmitter, and record responses. That is an empirical observation.
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