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    Supports→Naturalist moral epistemology fails to derive moral conclusions from purely non-normative premises

    G.E. Moore's open question argument shows that for any natural property F, 'X is F but is X good?' remains coherently askable, proving no purely descriptive predicate captures moral content.

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    Descriptive predicate(Moore argues these cannot express moral meaning)
    A word that simply describes what something is like factually, without making a judgment about whether it's good or bad (for example, 'yellow' or 'causes pleasure').
    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.
    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.
    moral content(the type of background beliefs that influence Norma's judgment)
    Ideas or beliefs that are specifically about what is right, wrong, good, or bad.
    open question argument

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    (Metaethics; critique of moral naturalism)
    G.E. Moore's argument that for any natural property N, the question 'Is N good?' remains genuinely open, purporting to show that goodness cannot be identical to any natural property.

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