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    Supports→Moore's consequentialist thesis that one ought always to perform the best action possible is internally inconsistent with Moore's own moral conservatism.

    An implicit bifurcation that Moore never acknowledges or defends is not a solution to inconsistency but is itself evidence of the inconsistency, since the two levels generate conflicting verdicts on the same action.

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    Implicit(describing how the categorial structure operates in perception)
    Present or involved in something, but not directly stated or obvious—working in the background without being explicitly acknowledged.
    Inconsistency(as used in logic)
    When a system contains statements that contradict each other—like saying 'this is true' and 'this is false' at the same time.
    Moore(Moore's proof refers to his famous argument for the existence of external objects)
    G.E. Moore was an influential 20th-century philosopher known for defending common sense claims (like 'this is a hand') against skeptical arguments that doubt what we can know about the world.
    Verdicts(as used in epistemology)
    Conclusions or final judgments about what is true or false.
    bifurcation

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    A sudden qualitative change in the behavior of a nonlinear dynamical system occurring at specific control parameter values.
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    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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