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    Challenges→Moral nihilism cannot be ruled out by arguments from non-moral facts, observations, or their best explanations

    Ruling out moral nihilism via non-moral premises requires crossing the is-ought gap

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    There are two main responses to such skeptical hypothesis arguments (cf. May 2013). First, some anti-skeptics deny (1) and claim that skeptical hypotheses can be ruled out somehow. They might argue that moral nihilism is internally inconsistent or meaningless. If so, it can be ruled out by logic and semantics alone. However, moral nihilism does seem consistent and meaningful, according to all plausible theories of moral language, including expressivism, realism, and constructivism (Sinnott-Arms

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