Peterdjones comments on Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory - Less Wrong
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Do you cross the road with your eyes shut? If not, you are assuming, like everyone else, that there are things out there which are terminally disutiilitous.
Whose language ? What language? If you think all language is a problem, what do you intend to replace it with?
It refers to the stuff that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it.
Note the bold.
English, and all the rest that I know of.
Something better would be nice, but what of it? I am simply saying that language obscures what is going on. You may or may not find that insight useful.
If so, I suggest "permanent" as a clearer word choice.