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    Challenges→In a naturalistic universe, Darwinian evolution would be expected to select for moral judgments that track survival rather than objective moral truths

    The argument equivocates between 'tracking objective moral facts' and 'tracking mind-independent Platonic moral facts,' conflating distinct metaethical positions.

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    • 1.Objectivity and Platonism are logically distinct: facts can be objective without existing as abstract entities independent of all minds.
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    • 2.Conflating these positions masks important disagreements—e.g., constructivists affirm objective morality but reject mind-independent moral facts.
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    • 3.Equivocation fallacies are particularly damaging in metaethics, where terminological precision determines which theories are actually in competition.
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    • 1.In practice, 'objective' and 'mind-independent' track the same explanatory burden: both require moral facts to constrain behavior independent of opinion.
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    • 2.Critics of 'objective morality' typically reject both accounts together, suggesting they share a core commitment worth analyzing jointly.
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    • 3.The distinction may be merely verbal—saying facts are 'objective' while grounded in human nature simply relabels rather than resolves the core dispute.
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