If moral skeptics borrow the burden-of-proof asymmetry from epistemology without argument, they presuppose a metaethical position—noncognitivism or error theory—that itself demands positive defense.
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burden of proof(Used to frame the default presumption against coercive institutional structures.)
The obligation on institutions employing authority, hierarchy, or domination to demonstrate that such arrangements are justified given existing conditions.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
error theory(The error theoretic conclusion is what Streumer's argument is directed toward)
A metaethical view whose conclusion is reached in part by establishing that normative properties are not natural properties
noncognitivism(contrasted with error theory)
The view that moral judgments lack truth value because they are not assertions at all