Jack comments on Pluralistic Moral Reductionism - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 01 June 2011 12:59AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (316)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Jack 21 August 2011 06:36:58PM 0 points [-]

(Replying to the comment instead of the post to be sure you'll see this)

In "The Is-Ought Gap" you conclude

Either our intended meaning of 'ought' refers (eventually) to the world of math and physics (in which case the is-ought gap is bridged), or else it doesn't (in which case it fails to refer).

I have a lot to say about this particular issue but I'm not sure if you think you've exhausted the issue in this post or if you plan to come back to it. Just to begin with, though, I hope you're aware that the two reasonable camps that take the gap most seriously would both agree with this conclusion. The issue is exactly this: we don't think 'ought' refers.