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    It is not the case that If a moral truth is necessary, then that moral truth must be universal

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    • 1.Necessary truths are true in all possible worlds, whereas universal truths are true across all actual cases within a single world.
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    • 2.A moral truth could be necessarily true without being universal if some possible worlds contain no beings to whom that moral truth applies.
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    • 3.Therefore, necessity entails truth across modal space, not universality across all actual particulars, making the inference from necessity to universality a modal category error.
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative is arguably a necessary moral truth yet applies only to rational agents, not to all actual entities in the world.
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    • 2.Universality in the morally relevant sense is agent-relative and domain-restricted, not an unrestricted quantification over all actual cases.
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    • 3.A necessary moral truth can therefore be universal within its proper domain without being universal in the unrestricted sense the claim requires.
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    • 1.If a proposition must be true, then that proposition is true in every actual case
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    • 2.Universal truths are those that hold in every actual case
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