djcb comments on Heading Toward: No-Nonsense Metaethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: djcb 24 April 2011 11:53:58AM 7 points [-]

It's a pretty bold claim to state that you can solve meta-ethics!

I think one important thing to make explicit up front is what you mean by "solving", and how we can see that your particular solution is the correct one. I mean, it might be possible to show that a system is consistent (which is non-trivial...) , maybe even that it is practical, but apart from that, I have a hard time seeing meta-ethics as a problem with a definite solution.

Comment author: XiXiDu 24 April 2011 04:53:46PM *  4 points [-]

...and how we can see that your particular solution is the correct one.

I think this is a very important point and would like to see it being addressed.