RobinHanson comments on Is Morality Given? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 07 July 2008 12:47:31AM 0 points [-]

Richard, while there are surely many details we would like to understand better, surely we understand the basic outline of how we discern scientific and mathematical truths. For example, in math we use contradiction to eliminate possible implications of axiom sets, and in science we use empirical results to eliminate possible abstract theories. We have nothing remotely similar in morals. You never said whether you approved of a similar argument about knowledge of God.