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    Frege-Geach problem: if moral terms lack objective refere... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It can be true or false that an action is good-according-to-a-specific-person, even if there are no objective moral facts.

    Frege-Geach problem: if moral terms lack objective reference, they cannot retain stable semantic content across embedded contexts like conditionals.

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    • 1.Semantic content requires stable reference across contexts; otherwise 'if X is wrong, then Y' becomes meaningless.
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    • 2.Non-cognitivist accounts (expressivism, prescriptivism) treat moral terms as attitude-expressions, not truth-apt propositions.
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    • 3.Attitude-expressions cannot function as antecedents in conditionals without collapsing into incoherence or equivocation.
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    • 1.Semantic content doesn't require objective reference; predicates like 'game' or 'bachelor' lack objective essence yet embed coherently.
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    • 2.Non-cognitivist accounts can assign stable truth-conditions to embedded moral claims via recursive compositional semantics.
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    • 3.The problem conflates reference-stability with semantic stability; moral attitudes can be consistently compositional without tracking objects.
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