JGWeissman comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 28 April 2011 04:47:17AM 2 points [-]

I think people may be making the same mistake by trying to force morality to use the same meta-theory as science, i.e., asking what experiences moral facts anticipate.

If that is true, what virtue do moral fact have which is analogous to physical facts anticipating experience, and mathematical facts being formally provable?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 April 2011 04:48:43AM 1 point [-]

If that is true, what virtue do moral fact have which is analogous to physical facts anticipating experience, and mathematical facts being formally provable?

If I knew the answer we wouldn't be having this discussion.