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    It is not the case that A child first being taught simple moral principles does not yet have a justification for those principles based on self-evidence

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    • 1.Chomsky's poverty-of-the-stimulus argument shows children reliably converge on complex grammatical rules without explicit instruction, suggesting innate cognitive structures.
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    • 2.If children exhibit analogous rapid moral convergence across cultures, this suggests pre-reflective moral knowledge that does not depend on maturation or deliberate consideration.
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    • 3.A proposition can be self-evident to a mind even if that mind cannot yet articulate or defend it, since self-evidence concerns epistemic access, not verbal competence.
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    • 1.Intuitionist philosophers like Ross and Prichard distinguished between having a justified moral belief and being able to give a discursive account of its justification.
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    • 2.A child who recoils from witnessing cruelty and judges it wrong may be directly apprehending a moral fact, with the teaching merely directing attention rather than conferring justification.
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    • 3.If teaching functions as ostension rather than inference-transmission, the child's justification originates in their own self-evident apprehension, not in the teacher's authority.
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    • 1.Self-evident propositions are evident only to persons who have attained sufficient mental maturity
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    • 2.Self-evident propositions are evident only after the person has given them sufficient consideration
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    • 3.A child being taught moral principles for the first time has not yet attained sufficient maturity or given the propositions due consideration
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