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    It is not the case that Primitivism about normativity implies primitivism about normative properties and concepts.

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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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    • 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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