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    Supports→Stance-independence is not a necessary condition for the objectivity of moral truth.

    The intrinsic badness of pain for the person suffering it is a stance-dependent truth, because what constitutes pain as bad is the sufferer's negative evaluative response to the sensation.

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    Evaluative response(as used in ethics and philosophy of mind)
    A judgment or attitude someone makes about something—like deciding whether it's good or bad. A masochist's positive evaluation of pain is their personal judgment about it.
    intrinsic badness(ethics (evaluating what's good and bad))
    Something being bad because of what it is in itself, not because of what it causes or leads to—like pain being bad just because the experience itself is unpleasant.

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    sensation(Used by Amo to argue that sensation is incompatible with the purely active nature of the mind.)
    A purely passive reception of sensory information.
    stance-dependent truth(Applied to the intrinsic badness of pain as an illustrative case)
    A truth whose obtaining essentially depends on a subject's evaluative response or stance toward the relevant state of affairs.

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    There are two ways to go if one wishes to defend the possibility of moral knowledge against the argument from moral objectivism. One is to reject the concept of stance-independent objectivity as a necessary condition on moral truth. Studies show that even young children after a certain age make an intuitive distinction between conventional demands and moral demands (Nichols 2004). Basic moral demands unlike conventional ones are taken to be independent of authority (for example, that of a teache

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