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TheAncientGeek comments on Why didn't people (apparently?) understand the metaethics sequence? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 04 November 2013 06:05:26PM 0 points [-]

The problem with the standard jargon is that "realism" is used to label a metaphysical and an epistemological claim. I like to call the epistemological claim, that there is a single set of moral truths, moral objectivism, which clearly is the opposite of moral subjectivism.