On what basis do you make that assertion?
Also, I don't think that 'true' is a correct descriptor for the One Correct Morality. 'Right' is the best word I think we have for what it is.
Me:
What I meant was that what is true is indeed "a system compatible with a system which developed with competing pressures, and has as a major characteristic that 'people who have this system successfully convince other people to adopt it'".
Decius:
On what basis do you make that assertion?
The two examples of such systems of what is true that I mentioned in the great-gradparent: mathematics and science.
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