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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I follow C.P Snow's falsification methodology, myself. It states that you can't know any theory to be true, you can only disprove it. Thereby limiting truth to a smaller and smaller area. Of course, how do you limit it? By using reproducible facts do measure with. Are those fact true? Yep, it bites it's own tail... Still, with an engineer's viewpoint, it does work.
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This a confusion of what you can know and what is true. Something can be true even if it is impossible to know that.
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Can you limit moral statements the same way? To a limited amount, inasmuch as there are few way to get reproducible tests of moral statements. And you have to have a bedrock axiom to start with. My bedrock axiom is axioms that directly lead to death (on both an individual scale and and societal scale) are false. I.e. not true, bad. The reason for that is that dead people no longer have a morality (or anything else) to apply...
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The status of moral statements and morality are not strongly related. You probably did not mean morality.
From the axiom that death causes a human being to stop being a moral being does not follow that moral statements are tru in your very strange definition of truth.