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    It is not the case that 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?' 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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    • 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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