Anonymous
7/21/2025, 7:56:58 PM No.17860937
What's the argument against error theory? Moral statements seem to be cognitive but they don't relate to any real detectable properties.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 7:59:24 PM No.17860943
>>17860937 (OP)
People seem to detect them fairly reliably.
People seem to detect them fairly reliably.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 8:02:17 PM No.17860956
>>17860952
The relationship of an action with a particular value.
The relationship of an action with a particular value.
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 8:03:18 PM No.17860961
>>17860956
Can you measure it with some kind of instrument?
Can you measure it with some kind of instrument?
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Anonymous
7/21/2025, 8:04:57 PM No.17860965
>>17860961
Not that I know of. Why would I do that?
Not that I know of. Why would I do that?
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 8:32:11 AM No.17862409
>>17860937 (OP)
Its anti-teleological and just presumes morals are just a matter of opinion. You can't form a society or community around that.
Its anti-teleological and just presumes morals are just a matter of opinion. You can't form a society or community around that.
Anonymous
7/22/2025, 9:01:22 AM No.17862436
>>17860937 (OP)
It seems obvious that it is wrong to torture and rape people for fun.
>"But we can't detect the property of wrongness"
It is far more obvious that it is in fact wrong to torture and rape people than that every real property has to be empirically detectable. Any argument for this claim will have premises way less plausible than the claim it is trying to deny.
>"But moral properties are really queer"
The world is weird. People used to think gravity was a spooky occult force that couldn't possibly exist. The fact that some philosophers are incredulous about morality is not a reason to deny that torture and rape are bad.
It seems obvious that it is wrong to torture and rape people for fun.
>"But we can't detect the property of wrongness"
It is far more obvious that it is in fact wrong to torture and rape people than that every real property has to be empirically detectable. Any argument for this claim will have premises way less plausible than the claim it is trying to deny.
>"But moral properties are really queer"
The world is weird. People used to think gravity was a spooky occult force that couldn't possibly exist. The fact that some philosophers are incredulous about morality is not a reason to deny that torture and rape are bad.