peter_hurford comments on Questions for Moral Realists - Less Wrong

4 Post author: peter_hurford 13 February 2013 05:44AM

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

Sort By: Best

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

Comment author: peter_hurford 26 March 2013 06:25:21PM 0 points [-]

So what is moral is what is the most popular among all internally consistent possibilities?

Comment author: Alicorn 27 March 2013 07:01:48AM 0 points [-]

No, morality is not contingent on popularity.

Comment author: peter_hurford 27 March 2013 02:51:56PM 1 point [-]

I'm confused. Can you explain how you triangulate morality using other people?

Comment author: Alicorn 27 March 2013 06:23:44PM 0 points [-]

Mostly, they're helpful for locating hypotheses.

Comment author: peter_hurford 28 March 2013 02:44:26AM 0 points [-]

I'm still confused, sorry. How do you arrive at a moral principle and how do you know it's not a moral illusion?

Comment author: Alicorn 28 March 2013 05:56:25AM 0 points [-]

You can't be certain it's not a moral illusion, I hope I never implied that.

Comment author: peter_hurford 28 March 2013 06:34:57PM 0 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Alicorn 28 March 2013 06:41:16PM -1 points [-]

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.

Comment author: peter_hurford 28 March 2013 07:56:07PM 0 points [-]

I could probably order a list of statements from more to less confident.

By what basis do you make that ordering?

Comment author: Alicorn 28 March 2013 11:41:06PM -1 points [-]

I'm not sure what you mean by this question.

Comments (110)