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    Plato's Form of the Good and Frege's logical realism both demonstrate that rational constraint by mind-independent normative facts is coherent and does not collapse into heteronomy.

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    Form of the Good(Plato's Republic 508e)
    The highest Platonic principle, identified as the source of all being, and by extension the source of all order and goodness.
    Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy)
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
    Logical realism(as Frege's philosophical position)
    The view that logical truths and facts (like 'all triangles have three sides') are real and exist independently of whether anyone thinks about them.
    Mind-independent normative facts(as used in metaethics)
    Facts about what is right, good, or valuable that exist whether or not anyone is thinking about them.
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    An ancient Greek philosopher (around 428-348 BCE) who wrote famous dialogues exploring big questions about knowledge, justice, and reality.
    Rational constraint(as a key claim about how reason works)
    The idea that reason and logic can limit or guide our choices because they have real force—they actually obligate us, not just suggest ideas.
    coherent(de Finetti's usage in the context of the Dutch Book argument for probabilism)
    A subject is coherent if their unconditional degrees of belief do not permit a Dutch Book (a guaranteed loss through a combination of bets) to be made against them
    heteronomy(Contrasted with the mistaken view that any inalterability entails heteronomy)
    Lacking autonomy relative to some aspect of oneself; specifically, being unable to alter an aspect of oneself that one experiences upon reflection as an external burden constricting one's more settled and authentic nature.

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