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wedrifid comments on What is Eliezer Yudkowsky's meta-ethical theory? - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: lukeprog 29 January 2011 07:58PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 30 January 2011 04:52:14PM 1 point [-]

In a sense should always implies if. Can anyone point me to a "should" assertion without an implied if? If humans implicitly assume an if whenever they say should then the term is never used to propose a moral imperative but to indicate an instrumental goal.

That is a way you can translate the use of should into a convenient logical model. But it isn't the way humans instinctively use the verbal symbol.