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McBrian16

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Interesting. I'll have to think on this. Thanks for your comments!

I guess my concern is if I said, "This depends on your stance on what counts as an epistemic fact, but you should accept the conclusions of a sound argument," what prevents someone from saying, "Well, if it's stance-dependent, then I'm totally justified in accepting unsound arguments."?  It seems a person would be equally as justified in accepting unsound arguments as they do sound ones.

It’s objectively good to see you here, Lance!

Before reading the article: The argument I often hear in support of moral realism appeals to moral experience, but moral experience seems totally consistent with moral anti-realism being true. I don't know what evidence for moral realism would look like even if it were to exist, but that would just mean that there's no reason to prefer either view (anti-realism vs. realism).  

After reading: This Cuneo-style argument that Matthew used in this writing is interesting. I forgot about the bad company argument that I learned about several years ago. Don't I lose epistemic facts if I lose moral facts? Maybe so. It seems self-refuting to argue that people should be indifferent to purported epistemic facts; if you want people to clearly assess the merits of your argument against taking epistemic facts seriously, you seem to need them to have rationality. I don't think you'd want them to misrepresent your argument against epistemic facts, use an ad hominem as justification for rejecting it, etc.