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    Hare's prescriptivism holds that moral universalizability... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The inference from 'Act A is a lie' to 'Act A is wrong' shares key features with inductive inference.

    Hare's prescriptivism holds that moral universalizability is a logical, not empirical, feature of moral terms like 'wrong'.

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    • 1.The meaning of 'wrong' logically entails that if an act is wrong for person A, it must be wrong for anyone in relevantly similar circumstances.
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    • 2.Universalizability doesn't depend on psychological facts about humans; it flows from the concept itself, making it a logical feature.
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    • 3.We can recognize someone's moral judgment as self-contradictory simply by analyzing their language, without empirical investigation.
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    • 1.Whether people actually apply universalizability when making moral judgments is an empirical question about moral psychology.
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    • 2.The meaning of 'wrong' may be partly conventional and culturally determined, making universalizability a learned feature, not logical.
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    • 3.Determining 'relevant similarity' between cases requires empirical investigation of consequences, not logical analysis alone.
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