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orthonormal comments on Another Argument Against Eliezer's Meta-Ethics - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Wei_Dai 05 February 2011 12:54AM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 05 February 2011 12:41:27PM 1 point [-]

Do we really often mean to refer to those heuristics by "right"? Can you give me a couple of examples of when we clearly intend to do that?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 February 2011 12:52:18PM *  0 points [-]

When one speaks, in some sense one always argues. So when you say that "saving that child was right", you appeal to particular moral intuitions, i.e. heuristics, allowing other people to notice these intuitions and agree with you, not making a meta-ethical claim about this action being in accordance with the essence of "right".

Comment author: wedrifid 05 February 2011 03:01:14PM 4 points [-]

When one speaks, in some sense one always argues.

Sometimes when one speaks one speaks for oneself!