Metaethicists and philosophers generally, did we ever come to an agreement about the most plausible reformulation of Moore's Open Question Argument in light of externalist metasemantics?
It's one of those arguments that everyone hates but still it gets cited as telling us *something* important. What is the important thing it tells us?
#philosophy #ethics #metaethics
Preston Werner /
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