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

    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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    Key Terms

    Incorporation Thesis(Martin's account of hope)
    The view that the hoping person incorporates the desire-element into her rational scheme of ends
    Moral motivation(as the central disagreement between Kant and Hume)
    What causes a person to actually do the right thing—whether it's reason, emotion, desire, or something else.
    Redescription(philosophy of science and logic)
    A different way of describing or explaining the same situation that might reveal new insights without changing what's actually happening.
    Unfalsifiable(describes the main problem with the hypothesis)
    A statement or theory that's impossible to prove wrong because it's designed in a way that any evidence against it can be reinterpreted to support it instead.
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    phenomenology(Preliminary working definition offered as a starting point for understanding the discipline)
    The study of phenomena: what appears to us and its appearing

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