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    The suppressed premise is itself a moral (normative) claim — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Naturalist moral epistemology fails to derive moral conclusions from purely non-normative premises

    The suppressed premise is itself a moral (normative) claim

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    Naturalists in moral epistemology deny (5) when they try to derive a conclusion that an act is morally wrong from purely non-normative features of the act. However, moral skeptics retort that such derivations always depend on a suppressed premise that all acts with those features are morally wrong. Such a suppressed premise seems moral and, hence, normative. If so, the naturalist’s inference does not really work without any normative premises. Naturalists still might invoke inferences to the bes

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