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    Challenges→If the standard account of particular relevance were defensible, generalists would have an epistemological basis for claiming that relevance is always general.

    If holism is even coherent as a metaethical position, then the claim that discerning relevance in one case 'immediately shows' universal relevance begs the question against particularism.

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    Discerning relevance(identifying what's important in a particular moral situation)
    Figuring out which facts or details actually matter for making a decision or judgment.
    Holism(Mid-twentieth-century individualism/holism debates)
    A position in the individualism/holism debates that treats social entities as irreducible to individualistic entities, without denying the existence of the non-social
    Metaethics(as the general field this statement appears in)
    The branch of philosophy that asks questions about morality itself—like whether moral truths actually exist, or what makes something right or wrong.
    Particularism(See section 4.3 of source)
    The principle that the properties of a composite system are wholly determined by the intrinsic properties of its parts; implies Outcome Independence according to Teller (1989)

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    begs the question(Informal fallacy in epistemic justification)
    A circular argument in which warrant for the premises already presupposes the truth of the conclusion
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them

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