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    Supports→Moral intuitions are explained by evolutionary pressures rather than by inherent moral value in the things intuited

    The content of moral intuitions varies predictably with ancestral environment, which is precisely what an evolutionary debunking explanation predicts and moral realism cannot explain.

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    Ancestral environment(the setting that shaped how our intuitions work)
    The prehistoric conditions where humans evolved and developed our natural instincts and gut reactions.
    Evolutionary debunking explanation(in metaethics (the study of what morality actually is))
    An argument that our moral beliefs are just products of evolution designed to help us survive, not proof that morality is actually real or true.
    Metaethics(as the general field this statement appears in)
    The branch of philosophy that asks questions about morality itself—like whether moral truths actually exist, or what makes something right or wrong.
    moral intuitions(Metaethics discussion of intuitionism)
    Intellectual seemings — cognitive states in which certain moral propositions appear true to the subject

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    moral realism(Used interchangeably here with moral objectivism)
    The view that moral facts are objective — that is, that moral claims can be true or false independently of what any individual or culture believes

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