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    It is not the case that Hare's recognition that prescriptivism must preserve logical entailments between moral sentences concedes precisely the inferential embedding problem Russell's theory cannot resolve.

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    • 1.Prescriptive entailments differ logically from indicative ones: 'do X' and 'do Y' don't entail 'do X and Y' in the same way propositions do.
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    • 2.Hare's universalizability preserves practical consistency without admitting moral facts, so acknowledging logical structure doesn't undermine prescriptivism itself.
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    • 3.Russell may simply reject that 'torture is wrong' entails 'unnecessary torture is wrong'—the first expresses attitude; the second may require separate commitment.
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    • 1.Prescriptivism requires logical consistency: if 'X is wrong' entails 'do not X', moral sentences must preserve inferential structure like indicatives.
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    • 2.Russell's theory treats moral sentences as purely emotive, blocking valid inferences between them—e.g., from 'torture is wrong' to 'unnecessary torture is wrong'.
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    • 3.Hare's move to preserve entailment (via universal prescriptions) concedes that non-cognitive theories face structural problems indicative logic solves naturally.
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