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    It is not the case that Disagreements about moral definitions do not imply moral relativism.

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    • 1.Mackie's argument from queerness holds that objective moral properties would be metaphysically anomalous entities unlike anything else in the natural world.
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    • 2.Persistent, cross-cultural definitional disagreement is better explained by the absence of moral facts than by universal human failures of reasoning.
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    • 3.Attributing all moral disagreement to bias or insufficient reasoning is an ad hoc maneuver that insulates the claim from empirical falsification.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no shared 'simple ideas' can uniquely determine correct application of moral concepts.
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    • 2.If the same simple ideas systematically yield divergent moral definitions across cultures, the divergence is constitutive, not merely a product of bias.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Disagreements about definitions of concepts like property, justice, or murder result from insufficient reasoning about the simple ideas comprising those moral ideas.
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    • 2.Bias, prejudice, and other irrational influences — not the nature of moral ideas themselves — cause definitional disputes.
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