RE: Is Moral Nihilism a Morality?
June 11, 2019 at 6:25 am
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2019 at 6:35 am by SenseMaker007.)
(June 11, 2019 at 6:16 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It may all be meaningless (in some meaningful way, lol),
if it's meaningless "in some meaninful way" then it's not meaningless.
Quote: but even meaninglessness can present a normative structure.
You are yet to demonstrate this.
It's more accurate to say that meaninglessness is incoherent. It's certainly not accurate, as you keep insisting, to say that an incoherent position is expressing something normative. An incoherent position can't express anything at all. If it could, it wouldn't be an incoherent position.
(June 11, 2019 at 6:24 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Incoherent positions are constantly posing normative structures. Nutball cult leaders bank on it.
Still no examples of how it's even logically possible for something logically incoherent to express anything.
Quote:-I'm- not the one making those normative staements. I'm repeating them back to you.
You may think you are, but you haven't actually demonstrated or explained it. All you've done is dodged my questions.
I shall ask you them again: (1) How does a noncognitivist position express anything normative? (2) How is saying that all statements about morality are false express anything normative? (3) How can an entirely incoherent position express anything at all, let alone anything normative?
Quote: They're what you told me a nihilist can't coherently do. In normative semantics, these are ought nots. This because you asked me to explain my previous comments.
I think it's useless to discuss with you if you ignore all direct questions and just insist that I'm wrong without any counterarguments. This is not any sort of explanation. I am asking you how saying something is meaningless/incoherent is expressing that you ought to or ought not to do something and your response is to just to barely assert that it is. Regardless of what you claim, "Doing X is meaningless" does not mean "You ought to not do X."
This time are you going to answer my direct questions directly or am I going to have to deem discussing with you a complete waste of time?