grouchymusicologist comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

31 Post author: lukeprog 25 April 2011 04:53PM

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Comment author: grouchymusicologist 25 April 2011 07:05:29PM 1 point [-]

Sometimes one hears the term "moral realism," and in fact that term appears pretty often in your bibliography but not in the main text of your post. Would I be right to think that it comprises everything on the flowchart downstream of the answer "Yes" to the question "Are those beliefs about facts that are constituted by something other than human opinion?"?

Comment author: lukeprog 25 April 2011 07:24:48PM 1 point [-]

There are many definitions of moral realism. See here. But yes, your intuition here is roughly the one about the meaning of 'moral realism' shared by mainstream philosophers.