hairyfigment comments on What is Metaethics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 29 April 2011 08:57:42PM 0 points [-]

But I have yet to come across a single argument that would warrant the use of any terminology related to moral philosophy.

You just did use it.

Now, in this case we could probably rephrase your statement without too much trouble. But it does not seem at all obvious that doing this for all of our beliefs has positive expected value if we just want to maximize epistemic or instrumental rationality.