If I scratch my nose, that action has no truth value. No color either.
The proposition “I scratched my nose” does have a truth value.
Bayesian epistemology maintains that probability is degree of belief. Assertions of probabilities are therefore assertions of degrees of belief, which are psychological claims and therefore obviously have or can have truth-value. Of course, Bayesians can be more nuanced and take some probability claims to be about degrees of belief in the minds of some idealized reasoner; but “the degree of belief of an idealized reasoner would be X given such-and-such” is still truth-evaluable.
See the distinction. Don’t hand wave it with “it’s all the same”, “that’s just semantics”, etc. You started saying that this is more of a question. I’ve tried to clarify the answer to you.
The question was primarily about the role of probability in Pearl’s account of causality, not the basic meaning of probability in Bayesian epistemology.
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I agree with vallinder’s point, and would also like to add that arguments for moral realism which aren’t theistic or contractarian in nature typically appeal to moral intuitions. Thus, instead of providing positive arguments for realism, they at best merely show that arguments for the unreliability of realists’ intuitions are unsound. (For example, IIRC, Russ Shafer-Landau in this book tries to use a parity argument between moral and logical intuitions, so that arguments against the former would have to also apply to the latter.) But clearly this is an essentially defensive maneuver which poses no threat to the orthogonality thesis (even if motivational judgment internalism is true), because the latter works just as well when you substitute “moral intuition” for “goal.”