Hey troy, I watched your debate with mason about name the trait. You said that you don't believe that traits are preference givers. What did you mean by that? If someone were to say that the human and animal both have the same propositions true of them while the human has moral value but not the animal. Would that person be asserting a contradiction?
@projects9166 No, I said that lists of traits are not great models of my preferences here or on many things. If the two things have the same propositions true of them, then they are either both humans or both non-human animals, and so they would be asserting a contradiction by asserting that one is a human and the other is a non-human animal. This is true regardless what they say about their moral status.
Gotcha ok. I heard someone who goes by Socradeez in Jack's server suggest that it's controversial to claim that a human is fully reducable to a set of propositions. Do you have any idea what he's talking about? In the mason debate it kind of sounded like you were raising a similar objection like socradeez but now I realize I misinterpreted you.
