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    It is not the case that Moral theories are unjustified

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    • 1.Coherentist justification—where beliefs mutually support each other—is a legitimate epistemic standard, not merely scientific confirmation.
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    • 2.Moral theories like Rawls's reflective equilibrium achieve justification by systematically reconciling moral intuitions and principles.
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    • 3.A theory of justification that rules out reflective equilibrium by fiat privileges one epistemic standard without independent argument.
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    • 1.Scientific theories themselves rely on non-empirical justificatory resources, including mathematical axioms and inference-to-the-best-explanation.
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    • 2.If moral theories are unjustified because they lack experimental testability, then logic and mathematics are equally unjustified by the same criterion.
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    • 3.Any argument that proves too much by condemning all non-empirical disciplines reductio ad absurdum undermines its own premise.
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    • Moral theories cannot be tested and confirmed in the way that scientific theories can
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