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    Supports→The Kantian argument against moral knowledge from experience is at best inconclusive

    If reflective equilibrium can yield justified moral beliefs by systematizing experiential moral data, then experience is a legitimate epistemic source for moral knowledge, undercutting the Kantian exclusion.

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    Key Terms

    Epistemic source(as used in epistemology)
    A way of gaining knowledge—like using your senses, reasoning, or experience to figure out what's true.
    Justified moral beliefs(as used in epistemology and ethics)
    Moral convictions (like 'stealing is wrong') that have good reasons or evidence backing them up, not just hunches.
    Kantian
    "Kantian" refers to the ideas of Immanuel Kant, an 18th-century German philosopher who fundamentally changed how we think about knowledge and morality. Kant argued that our minds actively shape what we experience in the world (rather than passively receiving information) and that we have a universal moral duty to act according to principles we'd want everyone to follow. His influence is so widespread that "Kantian" is used today to describe any approach to ethics or thinking that emphasizes reason, universal principles, and treating people as ends in themselves rather than as means to an end.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)

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    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
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    moral knowledge(Used to argue that moral anti-realism precludes genuine moral knowledge)
    Knowledge of objective moral truths, which requires the existence of objective moral properties
    reflective equilibrium(Introduced by Goodman in the context of justifying induction)
    A methodological state reached when considered judgments and the inference rules that best explain those judgments are mutually coherent, achieved by iteratively revising either judgments or rules when conflicts arise

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