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    Challenges→The open-question-style objection to metaphysical analyses of normativity is not decisive

    If metaphysical analyses of normativity are not knowable a priori, then any proposed analysis cannot be verified as normatively adequate rather than merely extensionally coincident.

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    Extensionally coincident(Computability theory)
    Two classes of functions are extensionally coincident when they contain exactly the same functions (i.e., they agree on all input-output pairs)
    Normatively adequate(as used in ethics)
    Meeting the standards or rules that we think *should* guide how something works—in this case, what makes a justification good enough according to moral or ethical principles.
    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    analysis(Leibniz's account of contingency via infinite analysis)
    The process of replacing the terms of a proposition with definitions or partial definitions.
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    (Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
    normativity(Explained via rational willing in the Kantian framework)
    The property of norms that makes them requirements incumbent on all agents.

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