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iiioiia t1_izy54g9 wrote

Reply to comment by timbgray in Why You Should Be Moral (answering Prichard's dilemma) by contractualist

> Ok but it is not “valuable among others”.

More than one person has expressed disagreement in this very thread though.

What meaning are you ascribing to the word "is" in this context? What does it refer to?

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timbgray t1_izytbm6 wrote

Whether or not a piece of what looks like garbage abandoned on the street, might have some value, sentimental or other, is not a good reason to claim that this particular “X according to reason is valuable among (sic) others”, regardless of the value it might or might not have for me. I am disagreeing with the OP’s general assertion of value.

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iiioiia t1_izyu2zp wrote

> Whether or not a piece of what looks like garbage abandoned on the street, might have some value, sentimental or other, is not a good reason to claim that this particular “X according to reason is valuable among (sic) others”, regardless of the value it might or might not have for me.

Perhaps, but this is other than the current scenario, which is where you have asserted: "it is not “valuable among others”."

Have you substantial evidence to support this assertion as being substantially more than merely a personal opinion?

> I am disagreeing with the OP’s general assertion of value.

And due to the manner in which you have done it, you have acquired a burden of proof.

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