Greetings,
Thanks for your input Platt. I'm sure you appreciate that the paragraph about prescriptivism and
upside down naturalism was not meant to be taken too seriously but was meant as an indication of my
present level of confusion. That confusion is starting to recede thanks to some excellent feedback
from yourself and a couple of others.
My goal is not to square the MoQ with the naturalistic fallacy, it is to find out whether the
average MoQ'ite sees the MoQ as naturalistic, non-naturalistic, non-cognitive or something else. In
the past I have looked at what people have said and observed a strong naturalistic streak. Then I
thought I might as well ask the question directly and so did. The result so far has been the opinion
of Horse and yourself (correct me if I misrepresent either of you) that when we analyse a
non-naturalistic intuited good we use naturalistic language to describe it because that is all we
have. The tricky bit, for me, is in the fact/value distinction. Not in understanding what is
presented, but more in synthesising the principles with current meta-ethical theory. If I can do
that, then I may be on to something.
I need to think more on this in order to put it in watertight (ish) terms but, as always and however
much we disagree, your input has much value.
Struan
P.S Horse. See what happens when you work too hard and study into the wee small hours. :-). I'm
looking forward to part 2 very much and thanks for an interesting and insightful part 1.
P.P.S Glove. I can assure you that they didn't have perfect pitch all along, unless they were very
good liars, and being good friends I doubt it. Your second question actually brings out my point. I
don't have perfect pitch so I do have to rely on the'hum.'
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