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    Challenges→Value judgments can be assessed instrumentally, in terms of how well they perform their function of constituting new valuings that solve the individual's predicament

    G.E. Moore's open question argument establishes that defining goodness by any natural property, including functional success, commits the naturalistic fallacy.

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    • 1.For any natural property P, we can coherently ask 'Is P really good?' without contradiction, suggesting goodness is not identical to P.
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    • 2.Equating goodness with natural properties treats an evaluative concept as if it were purely descriptive, committing a logical category mistake.
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    • 3.Functional success describes what something does; goodness describes whether that deserves approval—these answer different questions.
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    • 1.The open question argument assumes conceptual non-identity proves metaphysical non-identity, but water and H2O are identical despite distinct concepts.
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    • 2.Moore provides no independent criterion for detecting the naturalistic fallacy besides the open-question intuition, making the argument circular.
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    • 3.Some natural properties (like promoting flourishing) may be genuinely constitutive of goodness rather than merely correlated with it.
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