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    Challenges→Moral conclusions in Beauchamp and Childress's approach are justified through both coherence and foundationalism

    Invoking both foundationalism and coherentism as simultaneous justificatory bases generates a structural contradiction, since coherentism denies that any belief has privileged non-inferential warrant.

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    Coherentism(Epistemology; theory of epistemic justification)
    A doxastic theory of justification holding that only beliefs can serve as evidence, and that justification derives from the internal coherence of a belief system
    Justificatory bases(as used in philosophical arguments)
    The fundamental reasons or logic that explain why something is right or wrong, fair or unfair.
    Non-inferential warrant(as used in epistemology)
    A justification for believing something that doesn't require reasoning from other beliefs—something you just know directly without having to prove it from anything else.
    Structural contradiction(as used in logic and reasoning)
    When two ideas fundamentally conflict with each other at their core, making it impossible to use both as true at the same time.

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    foundationalism(Presented as the conclusion of the epistemic regress argument)
    The epistemological view that some beliefs have justification without depending on other beliefs, serving as the non-inferential base for all other justified beliefs
    inferential(describing the reasoning process used in philosophy)
    Related to inference—the process of drawing conclusions based on evidence or reasons rather than direct observation.

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