well, a lot of the philosophical arguments are about defining things, and a lot of the mathematical responses are in terms of never mind its name, suppose we let A be this, then we can formalise this that and the other about A, and maybe A is interesting?
how about you abandon the words factual-belief, and moral-belief, and call them the Jackesian quantity and the Vickeresian quantity, and then define them, and then no one will get mixed up with preconceptions about what they mean by facts, morals, and beliefs.
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Date: 2005-04-05 03:01 pm (UTC)how about you abandon the words factual-belief, and moral-belief, and call them the Jackesian quantity and the Vickeresian quantity, and then define them, and then no one will get mixed up with preconceptions about what they mean by facts, morals, and beliefs.