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Letters
Letters
Thinking About Ethics • Writing on Wrongs • Vaguely Agreeing • Other Voices • The Horror, The Horror • Artificial Intelligentsia
Thinking About Ethics
Dear Editor: In ‘The Cognitive Gap’, Issue 156, Justin Bartlett questions the position in ethics known as ‘non-cognitivism’ by referring to the Frege-Geach Problem. Geach claims that if saying “Killing is wrong” amounts to nothing more than saying “Boo to killing!”, then a seemingly valid argument turns out to be nonsense. The original valid argument is:
P1: Killing is wrong.
P2: If killing is wrong, then getting your little brother to kill is wrong.
C: Therefore, getting your little brother to kill is wrong.
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