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    Challenges→In cases involving conflicting moral principles, moral intuition is required to determine what action one ought to perform, all things considered

    If a principled algorithm can adjudicate moral conflicts without appealing to intuition, then intuition is not required but merely contingently used when rigorous theory is absent.

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    Key Terms

    Adjudicate(describing what functionalism can or cannot do regarding the disagreement)
    To judge, decide, or settle a dispute between two competing views.
    Moral conflict(as used in ethics)
    A situation where a person has to choose between two or more actions that each involve right and wrong—like having to choose between lying to save a friend or telling the truth.
    Rigorous theory(as contrasted with intuition)
    A well-thought-out explanation or system of ideas that carefully follows logic and evidence without gaps or weak points.
    algorithm(Philosophy of computation and information)
    A fundamental concept in information and computation theory, accepted as a primitive notion alongside data set
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    (in modal logic)
    In a way that could be true or false; depending on specific circumstances rather than being required by logic or nature.
    intuition(Kant, Prolegomena 4:286)
    In Kant's usage, immediate sensory or spatial awareness that is not reducible to conceptual thought; the mode by which the distinction between right and left is apprehended.
    principled(as used in logic and reasoning)
    Based on clear, consistent rules or standards rather than random choices or personal preference.

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