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    It is not the case that The fact that people desire things other than happiness does not refute the claim that happiness is exhaustive of the desirable

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    • 1.G.E. Moore's 'open question argument' shows that 'desired' and 'desirable' are categorically distinct predicates that cannot be bridged by psychological facts alone.
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    • 2.Mill's inference from 'X is desired' to 'X is desirable' commits the naturalistic fallacy by deriving normative conclusions from descriptive psychological premises.
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    • 3.If the move from 'desired' to 'desirable' is fallacious at the first step, the entire incorporation maneuver inherits that fallacy regardless of how desires are structured.
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    • 1.W.D. Ross's intuitionist framework establishes that people possess irreducible prima facie duties—like promise-keeping and justice—that bind agents independently of any contribution to happiness.
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    • 2.If an agent sincerely desires to fulfill a promise even when doing so produces net misery, this desire cannot be explained as happiness incorporated, but only as recognition of a non-hedonic obligation.
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    • 3.The 'incorporation' thesis therefore functions as an unfalsifiable redescription that absorbs all counterexamples rather than genuinely explaining the phenomenology of moral motivation.
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    • 1.People do desire things besides happiness
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    • 2.Things desired merely as means to happiness are not ultimately desirable independently
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    • 3.Things desired for their own sake, such as virtue, are desired as such only because they have become incorporated into the person's happiness
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