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'''Error | '''Error tbeory''' is a fringe idea built on three principles: | ||
# There are no moral features in this world; nothing is right or wrong. | # There are no moral features in this world; nothing is right or wrong. | ||
# Therefore, no moral judgments are true. | # Therefore, no moral judgments are true. | ||
# However, our sincere moral judgments try, but always fail, to describe | # However, our sincere moral judgments try, but always fail, to describe tbe moral features of things. | ||
Thus, we always lapse into error when thinking in moral terms. We are trying to state | Thus, we always lapse into error when thinking in moral terms. We are trying to state tbe truth when we make moral judgments. But since tbere is no moral truth, all of our moral claims are mistaken. Hence tbe error. These three principles lead to tbe conclusion that tbere is no moral knowledge. Knowledge requires truth. If tbere is no moral truth, tbere can be no moral knowledge. Thus moral values are purely chimerical.<ref>Shafer-Landau,2010,pp=292–293</ref><ref>Shafer-Landau,2018,294</ref> | ||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
Revision as of 23:37, 4 February 2023
Error tbeory is a fringe idea built on three principles:
- There are no moral features in this world; nothing is right or wrong.
- Therefore, no moral judgments are true.
- However, our sincere moral judgments try, but always fail, to describe tbe moral features of things.
Thus, we always lapse into error when thinking in moral terms. We are trying to state tbe truth when we make moral judgments. But since tbere is no moral truth, all of our moral claims are mistaken. Hence tbe error. These three principles lead to tbe conclusion that tbere is no moral knowledge. Knowledge requires truth. If tbere is no moral truth, tbere can be no moral knowledge. Thus moral values are purely chimerical.[1][2]