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    Supports→Russell can resist Moore's conclusion that goodness is a non-natural property

    Russell, as an empiricist about ethics, can coherently hold that 'good' rigidly designates a natural property whose identity with goodness is a substantive discovery, not a conceptual truth.

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    Empiricist about ethics(describing Russell's philosophical position)
    Someone who believes that our understanding of what is 'good' or 'bad' comes from experience and observation of the natural world, rather than from pure reasoning or intuition.
    Natural property(as something that wrongness is supposedly reduced to)
    A characteristic or feature of something that can be observed, measured, or studied using scientific methods.
    Rigidly designates(as used in philosophy of language and logic)
    A word or name that always points to the same specific thing, no matter what situation you're imagining or what time period you're talking about.
    Russell
    # Russell Russell most commonly refers to **Bertrand Russell**, a highly influential British philosopher, logician, and social critic (1872-1970) who fundamentally changed how we think about logic, language, and knowledge. He's famous for showing that common-sense reasoning can contain hidden contradictions and for arguing that philosophy should use the precision of mathematics to solve problems. Russell also became a prominent public intellectual who wrote about everything from religion to nuclear weapons, making him one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.

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    conceptual truth(Distinction between the modal status of 'ought' implies 'can' as conceptual versus substantive)
    A principle whose truth is guaranteed by the meanings of the concepts involved, as opposed to a substantive normative principle that makes a claim about what agents ought to do
    substantive discovery(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    A discovery that reveals something real and important about the world, not just something trivial or obvious from the definition of words alone.

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