Can “morally” mean “approximately”?
I asked a question on Stack Overflow about these uses of “morals”:
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Fast and Loose Reasoning is morally correct
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Purescript
Affdocumentation:This is moral equivalent of
ErrorT (contT unit (Eff e)) a.
Why do people use “morally” and “basically” as hedges for statements that may be false, but that will only be true in theory when the reality is that the statements are true and, in fact, false.?
Is this word usage normal outside of programming/math?
Is a life insurance product wrong?
Moral equivalent (meaning what you believe is right) is based
on what you want rather than what the law or rules say is wrong. So a moral
equivalent is something that may not be strictly true, but is something that is believed to be true, or can be found by an objective source.
What is really helpful in a short sentence like saying basically, which Macmillan
defines as used for saying that you are talking about the most important aspects of something and not using the
particular details of something?
