You can never truly 'solve' a moral problem, and philosophers say that’s exactly why human judgment actually works.
We usually think the goal of reasoning is to reach a final, perfect answer. This research suggests that judgment only works because it stays open to correction, meaning the 'finish line' is a myth that actually protects our ability to think.
The Impossibility of Normative Closure
SSRN · 6264340
Judgment is ordinarily understood as an operation that achieves stability by excluding error. This paper argues that such completion is impossible in principle. Here, "judgment" denotes rule-governed evaluation in which correct and incorrect applications are distinguishable. An operation counts as judgment only insofar as the correctness of its rule application remains assessable. If reassessability were eliminated, the distinction between correct and incorrect application would collapse, and th