somervta comments on Is the orthogonality thesis at odds with moral realism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: somervta 06 November 2013 07:22:39AM 3 points [-]

I'm still bothered by the fact that different people mean different and in fact contradictory things by "moral realism".

Welcome to metaethics!

And yet Eliezer seems to call himself (or be called?) a moral realist

I seem to recall Eliezer saying that he was a cognitivist, but not a realist.

Comment author: Creutzer 06 November 2013 07:43:43PM 0 points [-]

Oh, well, that makes some sense, actually. Since everybody knows that "cognitivism" means that moral statements have truth-values, whereas "realism" seems to be a confused notion - I actually interpreted it to mean the same thing as cognitivism because otherwise I don't know what on earth realism should even be.