thomblake comments on Pain - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Alicorn 02 August 2009 07:12PM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 August 2009 10:47:39PM 0 points [-]

For any X, we can ask "What's so bad about X", receive an answer X2, and ask "What's so bad about X2", ad infinitum.

G.E. Moore managed to ask the question about X2, dubbed it the "naturalistic fallacy", and stopped investigating. I prefer the method you advocate.