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    Challenges→Dogmatic moral skepticism has a presumption against it based on its form as a universal and abstruse claim

    Dogmatic moral skepticism claims that all moral beliefs have a certain epistemic status (are unjustified)

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    Dogmatic moral skepticism is, moreover, a universal and abstruse claim. It is the claim that all moral beliefs have a certain epistemic status. Normally one should not make such a strong claim without some reason. One should not, for example, claim that all astronomical beliefs are unjustified unless one has some reason for this claim. Analogously, it seems that one should not claim that all moral beliefs are unjustified unless one has some positive argument. Thus, its form, like its conflict wi

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