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    If 'solving the individual's predicament' fully captured ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Value judgments can be assessed instrumentally, in terms of how well they perform their function of constituting new valuings that solve the individual's predicament

    If 'solving the individual's predicament' fully captured the meaning of a correct value judgment, asking 'but is it truly good?' would be unintelligible, yet it manifestly is not.

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    • 1.The question 'but is it truly good?' presupposes a standard beyond individual preference, suggesting goodness has objective or intersubjective dimensions.
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    • 2.We distinguish between 'solving someone's problem' and 'solving it in a good way,' indicating goodness involves more than instrumental success.
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    • 3.Moral progress narratives (slavery abolition, etc.) require transcendent criteria to evaluate whether societies merely satisfied preferences or actually improved.
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    • 1.The question 'but is it truly good?' may be intelligible as a psychological doubt-reflex without requiring it to reference something beyond human concerns.
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    • 2.We can coherently distinguish 'good solutions' from 'bad ones' through intersubjective agreement and shared values without invoking metaphysical goodness.
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    • 3.The argument commits a fallacy: that intelligibility of a question entails the existence of what it presupposes—yet many coherent questions lack objective answers.
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