(November 21, 2017 at 5:24 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Firstly, in a great many examples of moral error theory, the dispute appears to be semantic. A moral realist and a moral skeptic are not actually disagreeing, just arguing over the proper terms to couch their often shared positions in.
Cultural relativism is SO guilty of this. Individual relativism has something resembling merit, though. It's not so much that I feel the need to argue FOR moral nihilism, it's just that it says to that little Occam's razor in my heart: "Here's something to cut." Specifically the argument from the scientific test of reality (I will post it if you don't recall it from memory) does raise some reasonable concerns for me, and I don't think they can be boiled down to semantics. If you can refute error theory convincingly, then I owe you one.
