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    It is not the case that Hilary Putnam's internal realism holds that truth conditions are fixed by our best theories, and moral discourse has the functional structure of a best-theory domain.

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    • 1.Science aims to describe mind-independent reality; morality seems fundamentally prescriptive, not descriptive—disanalogous functional structures.
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    • 2.Making truth depend on 'our best theories' risks circularity: whose theories? This threatens to collapse into relativism or conventionalism.
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    • 3.Moral realists argue moral properties (like wrongness) are discovered, not constructed—internal realism cannot explain moral determinacy this way.
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    • 1.Moral discourse exhibits systematic structure: we revise moral views based on coherence, consistency, and explanatory power, like scientific theories.
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    • 2.Internal realism avoids both naive moral realism and relativism by grounding truth in our best justified frameworks rather than mind-independent facts.
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    • 3.If moral claims lack truth conditions independent of our theories, they can still be objectively constrained by rational discourse standards.
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