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To: epicure who wrote (4277)	2/1/2001 2:02:36 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

>> Thus if I say to someone, "you acted wrongly in stealing that money," I am not saying anything more than if I had simply said, "You stole that money." In adding that this action is wrong I am not making any further statement about it. << This two statements are both factually and logically wrong.

To: epicure who wrote (4277)	2/1/2001 6:13:05 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"The presence of an ethical symbol in a proposition adds nothing to it's factual content. Thus if I say to someone, "you acted wrongly in stealing that money," I am not saying anything more than if I had simply said, "You stole that money." In adding that this action is wrong I am not making any further statement about it. I am simply evincing my moral disapproval of it. It is as if I had said "you stole that money," in a peculiar tone of horror..." The problem with moral relativism it that it is itself proposeing an absolute moral idea. and saying it is true. Tim