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    It is not the case that Teleological theories are committed to claims about value.

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    • 1.Some teleological theories, such as Aristotle's function argument, ground rightness in facts about natural kinds rather than evaluative facts about goodness.
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    • 2.Facts about the natural telos of a being are descriptive biological facts, not inherently normative or evaluative commitments.
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    • 1.Railton's naturalistic consequentialism reduces 'good' to non-normative facts about idealized desire-satisfaction, eliminating irreducible evaluative commitments.
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    • 2.If teleological theories can be fully naturalized, their apparent commitment to evaluative facts dissolves into descriptive claims about natural states.
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    Reasons Against

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    • Teleological theories appeal to evaluative facts in order to explain what is right, wrong, and what we ought to do.
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