Peterdjones comments on Conceptual Analysis and Moral Theory - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 26 May 2011 12:56:48PM *  0 points [-]

The concept of truth is for utility, not utility for truth.

Truth is useful for whatever you want to do with it. If people can collect stamps for the sake of collecting stamps, they can collect truths for the sake of collecting truths.

I'm non-cognitive to God, truth, and objective value (except as recently defined). Usually they all sound like religion

Sounding like religion would not render something incomprehensible...but it could easilly provoke an "I don't like it" reaction, which is then dignified with the label "incoherent" or whatever.