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    Supports→Any revised Russellian theory would have to distinguish between different uses of 'good', giving one account for asserted contexts and a different account for unasserted contexts

    Blackburn's quasi-realist program explicitly acknowledges that expressivist accounts require supplementary logic for embedded moral clauses.

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    • 1.Expressivism struggles with moral statements in conditional contexts like 'if torture is wrong, then X'. Supplementary logic is needed.
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    • 2.Blackburn's quasi-realism explicitly addresses the Frege-Geach problem by developing a compositional semantics for embedded clauses.
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    • 3.Pure expressivism cannot explain logical validity of inferences involving moral terms without additional formal machinery.
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    • 1.Calling supplementary logic 'explicit acknowledgment of a requirement' obscures whether expressivism is fundamentally flawed or merely incomplete.
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    • 2.The need for additional logical apparatus suggests expressivism may not capture moral language's core function, requiring theoretical patches.
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    • 3.Other metaethical theories (realism, constructivism) handle embedded clauses without requiring separate logical systems, questioning expressivism's viability.
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