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According to Ayer, the problem with the intuitionist's appeal to self-evident moral truths is that
{ 1 } - all truths are empirical, and hence no truths are self-evident.
{ 2 } - when moral intuitions conflict, there's no conceivable empirical test to decide which of the alleged moral truths are in fact true.
{ 3 } - both of these are problems.
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According to Ayer, the problem with the intuitionist's appeal to self-evident moral truths is that
{ 1 } - all truths are empirical, and hence no truths are self-evident.
{ 2 } - when moral intuitions conflict, there's no conceivable empirical test to decide which of the alleged moral truths are in fact true.
{ 3 } - both of these are problems.
Ayer didn't think that all truths were empirical.
Ayer accepted some non-empirical truths, namely analytic ones based on logic and the definition of terms. An example would be "All bachelors are single." We know that this is true, not by doing an empirical investigation, but by understanding the terms and logical connections.
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According to Ayer, the problem with the intuitionist's appeal to self-evident moral truths is that
{ 1 } - all truths are empirical, and hence no truths are self-evident.
{ 2 } - when moral intuitions conflict, there's no conceivable empirical test to decide which of the alleged moral truths are in fact true.
{ 3 } - both of these are problems.
These alleged moral truths aren't empirically verifiable and aren't true by definition. So it follows by the verifiability criterion of meaning that they are cognitively meaningless -- they make no true or false assertions.
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According to Ayer, the problem with the intuitionist's appeal to self-evident moral truths is that
{ 1 } - all truths are empirical, and hence no truths are self-evident.
{ 2 } - when moral intuitions conflict, there's no conceivable empirical test to decide which of the alleged moral truths are in fact true.
{ 3 } - both of these are problems.
Ayer didn't think that all truths were empirical.
Ayer accepted some non-empirical truths, namely analytic ones based on logic and the definition of terms. An example would be "All bachelors are single." We know that this is true, not by doing an empirical investigation, but by understanding the terms and logical connections.
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