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    Supports→The irrefutability of moral nihilism supports treating moral nihilism as a viable skeptical hypothesis

    A position that cannot be refuted by starting-point arguments or predictive failure fits the structure of a skeptical hypothesis argument

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    Moral skeptics can then argue that the definition of moral nihilism forestalls any refutation. Since moral nihilists question all of our beliefs in moral wrongness, they leave us with no starting points on which to base arguments against them without begging the question at issue. Moreover, moral nihilists’ explanations of our moral beliefs predict that we would hold exactly these moral beliefs, so the truth of its predictions can hardly refute moral nihilism. If this trick works, then it fits r

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