RichardKennaway comments on Normativity and Meta-Philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 April 2013 12:34:42PM 0 points [-]

the sentence is spoken to create a social pressure on the listener

How does it do that? Only indirectly, through what it means to the speaker and listener. What does it mean? That is the question here, and "social pressure" is not the sort of thing that can be the answer.