No, I meant probabilities. As in, “I assign a 40 percent chance of consequentialism being true.”
What does it mean for a morality to be “true”?
It depends what you mean by “morality”. If you think morality refers to “a series of conventions that tend to promote survival,” you can be wrong about that.
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No, I meant probabilities. As in, “I assign a 40 percent chance of consequentialism being true.”
What does it mean for a morality to be “true”?
It depends what you mean by “morality”. If you think morality refers to “a series of conventions that tend to promote survival,” you can be wrong about that.