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    Supports→Moral knowledge cannot be based solely on experience of the natural world.

    G.E. Moore's open-question argument shows that any proposed natural property N leaves it genuinely intelligible to ask 'X has N, but is X good?', indicating goodness is not identical to any natural property.

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    Key Terms

    G.E. Moore(as the creator of the Open Question Argument)
    A highly influential British philosopher (1873-1958) who developed important ideas about how we know things and what words actually mean.
    Goodness (in ethics)(The central concept Moore is analyzing)
    The quality that makes something morally right, valuable, or worth pursuing; what we mean when we call something 'good.'
    Identical to(philosophical logic)
    Being exactly the same thing, not just similar or equivalent, but literally one and the same entity.
    Natural property(as something that wrongness is supposedly reduced to)
    A characteristic or feature of something that can be observed, measured, or studied using scientific methods.
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    A famous philosophical argument (developed by G.E. Moore) showing that you can't fully define moral concepts like 'good' just by listing non-moral facts, because you can always ask 'but is that actually good?'

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