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    A tautology conveys no new information

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    Another objection is that the open question argument does not tell us anything distinctive about the concept of goodness, but is simply an instance of the paradox of analysis. According to this paradox any true analysis will be uninformative, because it will be reducible to a tautology, and any informative analysis will be false, because it can’t be reduced to a tautology. According to earlier versions of what Moore called ‘the open question argument’, and on one interpretation of Moore’s argume

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