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Not one that you can buy at an office supply store, at any rate, but you can triangulate a little using other people and of course checking for consistency is important.
So what is moral is what is the most popular among all internally consistent possibilities?
No, morality is not contingent on popularity.
I'm confused. Can you explain how you triangulate morality using other people?
Mostly, they're helpful for locating hypotheses.
I'm still confused, sorry. How do you arrive at a moral principle and how do you know it's not a moral illusion?
You can't be certain it's not a moral illusion, I hope I never implied that.
You're right; you haven't. Do you put any probability estimate on whether a certain moral principle is not an illusion? If so, how?
I don't naturally think in numbers and decline to forcibly attach any. I could probably order a list of statements from more to less confident.
By what basis do you make that ordering?