CuSithBell comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong
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You cannot guess? Do you not see the irony in making this request?
Here is the situation: people often use a single word (such as 'good') to mean many different things. Thus, if you wish to use the word to mean something in particular - especially in an argument about that word! - you might have to define your own meaning.
Besides - the behemoth Opal ("ordinary people at large") is a poor judge of many things.
Making the categorical/hypothetical distinction is a way of refining the meaning. I'm already there (although I am getting accused of pedantry for my efforts).