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    Supports→Judgments about what is right (about means) are also in the optative mood and incapable of truth or falsity.

    Frege's embedding problem shows that non-cognitivist expressions in complex sentences preserve their non-truth-apt force rather than acquiring descriptive content.

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    • 1.Embedding in conditionals (e.g., 'If murder is wrong, then X') preserves moral force without truth conditions, supporting non-cognitivism.
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    • 2.Frege showed that embedded expressions don't uniformly acquire descriptive sense; their original function often persists structurally.
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    • 3.If non-moral content required descriptive embedding, moral language in complex sentences would lose prescriptive or emotive character.
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    • 1.Embedded non-moral expressions can acquire truth-apt content through compositional semantics without abandoning their original function.
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    • 2.The embedding problem doesn't prove force-preservation; expressions could shift meaning in context while sentences remain compositionally valid.
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    • 3.Hybrid views accommodate non-cognitivist force AND descriptive content simultaneously, avoiding a binary force/description dichotomy.
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