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    Primitivism about normativity implies primitivism about normative properties and concepts.

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    • 1.It is of the nature of normative properties and concepts that they are normative.
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    • 2.Primitivism about normativity holds that normativity is unanalyzable.
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    • 3.Any constitutive account of a normative property or concept would include normativity as a constituent.
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    • 1.A property or concept can instantiate normativity without normativity being a constituent part of its constitutive analysis.
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    • 2.Structural features like 'being a reason' can be analyzed via functional or relational roles without unpacking what normativity itself is.
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    • 3.Thus primitivism about normativity as a generic feature is compatible with reductive analyses of particular normative properties like goodness or obligation.
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    • 1.Scanlon's buck-passing account analyzes normative properties like goodness in terms of reasons without treating normativity itself as a constituent of those properties.
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    • 2.If normative properties can be analyzed by appeal to reasons-relations whose normative force is taken as primitive, the properties themselves need not be primitive.
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    • 3.Primitivism about normativity as a category therefore does not entail primitivism about each normative property, since the primitive element is located in the reasons-relation, not the property.
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    It seems, however, that primitivism about normativity as such commits one to primitivism about the normative properties and concepts. For it is of the nature of the normative properties and concepts that they are normative. So primitivism about normativity implies that any constitutive account of the nature of a normative property or concept would have an unanalyzable constituent, the second-order normativity property. To illustrate, consider the view that all normative properties can be reduced
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