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    Morality is, like mathematics, a human science and proper... — Carmelics
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Morality is a demonstrable science analogous to mathematics86%If X is knowledge in humans, then the object of X is in humans (P3K).83%Logic is the science whose aim is to discover and teach the method of ...82%Knowledge is what it is in relation to what it is knowledge of (P4).81%

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    Locke, in fact, adds something of a meta-moral dimension to this epistemological point by suggesting that as rational beings it is our “proper Imployment” to contemplate morality. In Book IV of the Essay, where Locke concludes that morality is, like mathematics, a human science (and, properly-speaking, knowledge), Locke draws a teleological lesson—since we are clearly fitted with the capacity for discerning our moral duty, then that is what we ought to do: “I think I may conclude, that Morality

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