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    It is not the case that Hutcheson's appeal to a moral sense merely relocates the normative question rather than answering it, since the reliability of that sense itself requires rational vindication.

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    • 1.Moral sense differs from perception because ethical truths concern what ought to be, not what is—perception needs no vindication beyond reliable tracking.
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    • 2.Hutcheson's position succeeds if the moral sense is reliably calibrated through evolution or design to track real moral facts, requiring no further justification.
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    • 3.The criticism conflates epistemological justification with ontological grounding; explaining moral belief's source differs from explaining morality's existence.
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    • 1.All foundational faculties (reason, perception, intuition) require some form of validation, creating infinite regress unless one is basic.
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    • 2.If moral sense is basic like sensory perception, demanding rational proof of it mirrors the unjustified demand to rationally prove vision works.
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    • 3.Hutcheson's framework doesn't resolve the deeper problem: what makes any faculty's outputs normatively binding rather than merely descriptive.
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