Status Updates From Mind, Value, and Reality

"If there is enough substance to that understanding to enable us to rule out positions like Macintyre's with a clear conscience, that is what it is for truth to be attainable in such thought and speech, and so much the worse for any prior 'metaphysical understanding' which holds that there cannot be facts of that kind."

"But how can one restrain the metaphysical favouritism a projectivist must show from generating some such thought as 'This is not a real reason'? If that is allowed to happen, a remark like the one I have quoted will merely threaten - like an ordinary nihilism - to dislodge us from our ethical and aesthetic convictions."