wedrifid comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 27 April 2011 01:29:48PM 1 point [-]

Exact definitions are easy to come by, so long as you are not bothered about correctness. Let morality=42, for instance. If you are bothered about correctness, you need to solve metaethics, the question of what morality is, before you can exactly and correctly define "morality".

I can understand the impatience with philosophy -- "why can't they just solve these problems"--because that was my reaction when I first encountered it some 35 years ago. Did I solve philosophy? I only managed to nibble away at some edges. That's all anyone ever manages.

Comment author: wedrifid 27 April 2011 02:30:26PM 6 points [-]

Let morality=42, for instance.

How dare you! 42 isn't even prime, let alone right.