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    It is not the case that Moore's open question argument shows 'good' cannot be defined by any natural property without generating a meaningful residual question.

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    • 1.Conceptual openness doesn't prove metaphysical distinctness; 'water' was conceptually open to ancient speakers but reduces to H₂O.
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    • 2.Moore's argument assumes definitional identity requires conceptual transparency, but many valid definitions lack this property.
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    • 3.The open question persists partly due to linguistic convention and the complexity of natural properties, not because 'good' is non-natural.
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    • 1.If 'good' meant a natural property like 'pleasure,' asking 'is pleasure good?' would be meaningless, yet it remains intelligibly open.
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    • 2.Our intuition that ethical questions are substantive and non-trivial suggests ethical terms resist reduction to descriptive naturalistic terms.
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    • 3.The conceptual gap between descriptive facts and normative claims mirrors the linguistic gap Moore identified in the open question.
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