Ethics and Values / Unit 2 Ethics 062 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Infallibility Problem
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The idea
If a moral statement only reports the speaker's attitude, then every sincere moral statement is true — moral error becomes impossible.
In practice
A slaveholder sincerely approves of slavery; simple subjectivism grades his report accurate, and accurate is all the theory can say. A verdict is missing.
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