If moral predicates were reducible to natural properties discoverable through experience, the question 'this maximizes pleasure, but is it good?' would be as trivially closed as 'this is a bachelor, but is it unmarried?'
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(Used to contrast with moral properties in both Kant's and Moore's arguments)
Properties that are known through experience (empirically accessible properties)
the is-ought problem(the core issue this statement is addressing)
The philosophical puzzle that you can't automatically jump from describing how something *is* in the world to saying how it *ought* to be morally—these seem like different kinds of statements.
trivially closed(in logic and philosophy of language)
A question that has an obvious, boring answer that doesn't need any further discussion—it's settled by definition alone.