Peterdjones comments on A Defense of Naive Metaethics - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Will_Sawin 09 June 2011 05:46PM

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Comment author: Peterdjones 23 June 2011 02:34:20PM 0 points [-]

"A bachelor is an unmarried man.'

If that is non circular, so is [the statement that, if believed by a rational agent, would cause it to do X]

I'm quite confused. By circular do you mean anaylitcal, or recursive? (example of the latter: a setis something that can contain elemetns or other sets)

Comment author: Will_Sawin 23 June 2011 06:27:32PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure what I mean.

The definition I am using is in the following category:

It may appear problematically self-referential, but it is in fact self-referential in a non-problematic manner.

Agreed?

Comment author: Peterdjones 23 June 2011 06:41:39PM 0 points [-]

I don't think your statement was self referential or problematic,.