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    Supports→Moral knowledge cannot be based solely on experience of the natural world.

    Since the question remains substantively open for every candidate natural property, moral knowledge must access a non-natural normative domain unavailable to purely empirical inquiry.

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    Key Terms

    Empirical inquiry(as used in epistemology)
    The process of learning about the world through observation, experience, and evidence gathered through our senses or experiments.
    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.
    Non-natural(as used in metaphysics and ontology)
    Something that doesn't exist in or arise from the physical, observable world—like abstract concepts, numbers, or moral values (depending on philosophical view).
    Normative domain(as distinct areas with different standards)
    A separate realm or category that has its own rules about what's right or acceptable—here meaning that practical trust relationships follow different rules than scientific investigation.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    moral knowledge(Used to argue that moral anti-realism precludes genuine moral knowledge)
    Knowledge of objective moral truths, which requires the existence of objective moral properties
    substantively open(in philosophy generally)
    A question that remains genuinely unsettled in a meaningful way; there's no clear, agreed-upon answer despite serious investigation.

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