RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 21, 2023 at 8:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 21, 2023 at 8:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well there's our disconnect. It's not because you're a nihilist that you disagree with me, a realist. It's because you're a noncognitivist. You think that things mean things, just not the things they purport to mean. I'm sure we do alot of that too. I'm just not convinced it's all we do.
You do realize that I could ask you an endless procession of whys about the very claim you just made, right? This doesn't distinguish a purported moral fact from any other. I'm not gonna bore you by drawing that out. I could cut to the chase. You're not going to find anything logically amiss in moral realism. It literally -is- the idea that we should only make fact/fact-alike statements in moral propositions. The best criticism is probably that, insomuch as strict realism expresses true propositions, they are trivially true, trivially moral. The hard questions are still hard. Perhaps harder, with more exacting criteria.
You do realize that I could ask you an endless procession of whys about the very claim you just made, right? This doesn't distinguish a purported moral fact from any other. I'm not gonna bore you by drawing that out. I could cut to the chase. You're not going to find anything logically amiss in moral realism. It literally -is- the idea that we should only make fact/fact-alike statements in moral propositions. The best criticism is probably that, insomuch as strict realism expresses true propositions, they are trivially true, trivially moral. The hard questions are still hard. Perhaps harder, with more exacting criteria.
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