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    It is not the case that If moral discovery is ongoing and non-arbitrary, inductive reasoning supports expecting further unknown goodmaking properties rather than a near-complete moral ontology.

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    • 1.Historical moral disagreements may reflect factual ignorance or reasoning errors, not undiscovered properties—similar to discarded scientific theories.
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    • 2.Induction from past discoveries doesn't justify expecting infinite properties; some domains reach saturation (e.g., periodic table elements).
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'incomplete understanding of known properties' with 'existence of unknown properties'—a stronger and less defensible inference.
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    • 1.Historical moral progress reveals recurrent patterns: slavery, women's rights, animal welfare were invisible to prior eras, suggesting systematic blindspots remain.
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    • 2.If we've identified only some goodmaking properties, induction predicts more exist, much as scientific discovery reveals deeper layers in physical reality.
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    • 3.Complete moral ontologies face the problem of explanatory closure: why would evolution or cognition grant us access to all morally relevant properties?
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