poqwku comments on Pluralistic Moral Reductionism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: torekp 08 June 2011 10:16:37PM *  0 points [-]

For what it's worth, I think what's really being inferred by the advice-giver is:

  • 1 Granting your (advisee's) starting point, you ought to lose weight.
  • 2 Less calorie consumption and more calorie burning leads to weight loss.
  • 3 Therefore you ought to consume less and burn more calories.

The advisee's desire portrays the starting-point as a truth.

Comment author: poqwku 11 June 2011 12:05:13AM *  0 points [-]

Perhaps so, but then the normativity stems from premise 1, leaving premise 2 as non-normative as ever. But the question is whether premise 2 could be a plausible reduction basis for normative claims.

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