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    Practices of holding responsible are constitutive of mora... — Carmelics
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    Practices of holding responsible are constitutive of moral community membership, and suspending them wholesale on incompatibilist grounds would dissolve morally indispensable human relationships.

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    Holding responsible(as the practice that depends on reactive attitudes)
    The practice of treating someone as morally accountable for their actions—blaming them for wrongdoing or praising them for good behavior.
    Indispensable(describes which mathematical objects should exist according to Quine and Putnam)
    So necessary and important that you cannot do without it; essential.
    Wholesale(as used in this statement to mean 'completely' or 'entirely')
    In large amounts or all at once, rather than in small pieces or selectively.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    dissolve

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    (as used in philosophical argumentation)
    To break down, weaken, or disappear; in this context, to undermine or remove something's essential quality.
    incompatibilism(The passage questions whether survey respondents who endorse incompatibilist conclusions genuinely hold incompatibilist views.)
    The view that free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism.
    moral community(as used in ethics)
    A group of people bound together by shared ethical standards and mutual respect for each other's rights and dignity.

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