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-1 Post author: curi 06 April 2011 11:50PM

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Comment author: curi 07 April 2011 07:00:42PM *  -2 points [-]

http://lesswrong.com/lw/552/reply_to_benelliott_about_popper_issues/3uv7

And it creates moral knowledge by conjecture and refutation, same as any other knowledge. If you understand how Popper approaches any kind of knowledge (which I have written about a bunch here), then you know how he approaches moral knowledge too.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 07 April 2011 07:10:36PM 0 points [-]

And it creates moral knowledge by conjecture and refutation, same as any other knowledge. If you understand how Popper approaches any kind of knowledge (which I have written about a bunch here), then you know how he approaches moral knowledge too.

Consider that you are replying to a statement I just said that all you've done is say that it would use the same methodologies. Given that, does this reply seem sufficient? Do I need to repeat my request for a worked example (which is not included in your link)?