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Decius comments on Empirical claims, preference claims, and attitude claims - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 November 2012 07:41PM

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Comment author: Decius 15 November 2012 04:59:26PM 0 points [-]

"Everyone agrees that ~A is ~A" is not a tautology, any more than "Everyone agrees that second-order logic is sound." is a tautology.

"Unjustified killing" (Murder) is already the intersection of acts which are killing and acts which are not justified. The problem is that different people have different sets of "Acts which are justified" and "Acts which are morally wrong".

Comment author: TimS 15 November 2012 05:12:27PM 4 points [-]

I don't think you and JoshuaZ are having a substantive disagreement.