RE: Any Nihilists here?
August 24, 2023 at 1:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2023 at 1:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You disagree, but people disagree that facts are facts all the time. I can find you a whole army of children that can't get the answer to a math problem right and are adamant in their own wrong answers.
Here's something to chew on. Nihilism is a noncognitive position. A nihilist can't -coherently- agree with or use subjectivism, even, as an argument. Subjectivism is equivalently cognitivist to realism. It states that our moral proclamations are fact-alike, but that they misrepresent the purported fact...asserting some other also fact alike thing, instead.
Subjectivist objections, from a purported nihilist, actually advance the case of moral realism, rather than impeding it.
Here's something to chew on. Nihilism is a noncognitive position. A nihilist can't -coherently- agree with or use subjectivism, even, as an argument. Subjectivism is equivalently cognitivist to realism. It states that our moral proclamations are fact-alike, but that they misrepresent the purported fact...asserting some other also fact alike thing, instead.
Subjectivist objections, from a purported nihilist, actually advance the case of moral realism, rather than impeding it.
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