ABSTRACT
Treatises on ethics sometimes talk about conflicts of duties. But that phraseology is already making the matter pretty artificial. Of course, it is the analogies which there are between the statements made in moral discussions and statements made in other circumstances it is this which gives rise to part of your problem. Certainly, both there and in connexion with moral judgment it means that you can be mistaken or can be wrong. Then consider how you came to say that you were wrong. Or the kind of reasons you might give for saying that someone else is wrong in his judgment, say, about suicide. They learn all this, of course, in connexion with praise and blame, admiration and contempt. Notice that the relation of reason and belief is not the relation of cause and effect. You do not find out by experiment whether this is a good reason for believing so and so.
