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    The line of argument that there are unlikely to be many u... — Carmelics
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    The line of argument that there are unlikely to be many unknown goodmaking properties is not especially promising.

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    • 1.If the number of unknown goodmaking properties is small, the probability of Q may still be high even if Q does not express a law or a consequence of a law.
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    • 2.It may well be possible to argue that it is unlikely that there are many unknown, morally relevant properties.
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    • 3.Any attempt to establish that conclusion would very likely involve very controversial metaethical claims.
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    • 1.Moral epistemology has a strong track record: historically, humans have systematically discovered new morally relevant properties (e.g., sentience in animals, autonomy rights).
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    • 2.If moral discovery is ongoing and non-arbitrary, inductive reasoning supports expecting further unknown goodmaking properties rather than a near-complete moral ontology.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim that unknown goodmaking properties are likely few is defeated by the empirical pattern of expanding moral knowledge.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's open question argument entails that goodmaking properties are not reducible to natural properties, making their enumeration in principle unbounded.
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    • 2.If the space of possible goodmaking properties is non-naturalistic and open-ended, no principled argument can establish that known properties are near-exhaustive.
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    The basic idea behind a direct inductive formulation of the argument from evil is that the argument involves a crucial inductive step that takes the form of an inductive projection or generalization in which one moves from a premise concerning the known moral properties of some state of affairs to a conclusion about the likely overall moral worth of that state of affairs, given all its moral properties, both known and unknown.

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