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    Nothing can rule out moral nihilism. — Carmelics
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    Nothing can rule out moral nihilism.

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    • 1.Every method proposed for ruling out moral nihilism can be criticized.
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    • 2.The regress argument criticizes each such method in turn.
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    • 1.Moral nihilism is itself a substantive metaphysical thesis that requires justification, not merely the absence of disproof.
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    • 2.If no method can rule out nihilism, then no method can rule out non-nihilism either, making the asymmetric skeptical conclusion self-undermining.
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    • 3.Coherentist justification (Rawls's reflective equilibrium) does not require foundations that survive regress but still generates epistemic warrant.
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    • 1.The regress argument proves too much: applied universally it eliminates all knowledge, collapsing into global skepticism rather than specifically moral nihilism.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's 'hinge propositions' framework shows that some claims function as bedrock commitments immune to further justification without thereby being unjustified.
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    There is no way to rule out moral nihilism96%Every method proposed for ruling out moral nihilism can be criticized.89%Moral nihilism cannot be ruled out by appeal to common moral beliefs89%Any argument against moral nihilism must start from some belief in mor...87%

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    These arguments for moral skepticism differ in many ways, but they seem mutually supportive. One crucial premise in the skeptical hypothesis argument claims that nothing can rule out moral nihilism. The best way to support that premise is to criticize each method for ruling out moral nihilism. That is just one instance of what the regress argument does more generally. The argument from moral explanations excludes yet another way to rule out moral nihilism. So, if these other arguments work, they
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