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    It is not the case that Ethical judgments claiming objectivity are all false

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    • 1.Ethical judgments claim objectivity — they purport to describe how things actually are
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    • 2.There is no property of goodness corresponding to the linguistic predicate 'good'
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    • 1.Mackie's argument from queerness shows that objective moral properties would be metaphysically unlike anything else in the natural world.
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    • 2.If moral facts existed objectively, we would require a sui generis faculty of moral perception for which there is no empirical evidence.
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    • 3.Any judgment purporting to describe entities that cannot coherently exist is false, not merely unverifiable.
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    • 1.Persistent, irresolvable moral disagreement across cultures reflects the absence of objective facts that would otherwise converge inquiry.
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    • 2.Ayer's verification principle entails that ethical sentences lacking empirical truth conditions express attitudes, not objective states of affairs.
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