westward comments on Morality should be Moral - Less Wrong

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Comment author: westward 18 May 2013 01:32:46AM 2 points [-]

That's not a bad version. What I got from some of the sequences was that tautologies are true in all possible universes, they are true by definition, and that makes them useless.

Comment author: someonewrongonthenet 18 May 2013 02:25:33AM *  2 points [-]

Yeah...it's really just a semantic thing.

I like my technical jargon to match up with everyday use. In everyday life, when we say "that's true", we mean that that's real, not just that it's logically consistent and self justifying.

When your jargon doesn't match the everyday use, people get confused...like above, hen reached the conclusion that all morality is "true" because it is a tautology, with the implication being that all moral statements are right - that's an example of the sort of confusion that can occur.