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    Supports→In any case of specific moral judgment, comprehension of non-moral features of the situation is necessary before the judgment can be made and known to be true

    General principle-based moral reasoning requires understanding the non-moral features of a situation before applying a principle

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    At the other extreme are forms of moral particularism, according to which one directly intuits the moral rightness or wrongness of an act once one has understood its particular natural features (see the entry on moral particularism). As in the previous case it is necessary to comprehend the non-moral features of the situation before a specific moral judgment can be made and known to be true. In making this judgment, however, one must rely not merely on knowledge of these non-moral features but

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