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    Challenges→Daring and boldness are not identical with the virtue of courage.

    Collapsing the distinction between a virtue's defining structure and its moral appraisal smuggles normative requirements into what should be a descriptive account of the disposition.

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    Key Terms

    Collapsing the distinction(in logic and argumentation)
    Removing or eliminating the difference between two separate ideas, so they become impossible to tell apart.
    Defining structure(philosophy of language and metaphysics)
    The essential characteristics or features that make something what it is—in this case, what actually makes a virtue a virtue.
    Descriptive account(contrasted with normative account)
    An explanation that simply describes how something actually works or happens, without making judgments about whether it's good or bad.
    Disposition(as used in metaphysics)
    A tendency or potential for something to behave in a certain way under specific conditions—like how sugar has the disposition to dissolve when placed in water.
    moral appraisal

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    The evaluative assessment of an agent as morally praiseworthy or blameworthy
    normative(in ethics and philosophy)
    Relating to how things should be or what people ought to do, rather than just describing how things actually are.
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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