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    It is not the case that It can be true or false that an action is good-according-to-a-specific-person, even if there are no objective moral facts.

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    • 1.Relativized truth predicates ('true-for-S') collapse into descriptions of psychological states, not genuine truth-apt moral claims.
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    • 2.If 'good-according-to-X' is merely a report of X's attitudes, it cannot preserve the action-guiding, normative force of moral discourse.
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    • 3.Mackie's error theory shows that stripping objectivity from moral terms changes their meaning so fundamentally the original claim becomes vacuous.
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    • 1.Frege-Geach problem: if moral terms lack objective reference, they cannot retain stable semantic content across embedded contexts like conditionals.
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    • 2.A statement that is only 'true relative to a person' cannot function in valid modus ponens inferences, undermining the logical coherence of moral reasoning.
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    • 1.If a person sincerely asserts a moral statement, it is a fact that the person desires the thing described.
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    • 2.Facts about what a person believes to be good are genuine facts, even when objective moral facts do not exist.
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