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    It is not the case that The truth-aptness argument does not establish that moral facts exist

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    • 1.Crispin Wright's superassertibility account shows truth-aptness in a domain generates prima facie ontological commitment to that domain's subject matter.
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    • 2.If moral discourse exhibits cognitive command and wide cosmological role, as Wright argues, the default position shifts to realism absent defeating conditions.
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    • 3.The theological analogy fails because moral discourse, unlike theological discourse, is not optional—it is constitutive of practical reasoning itself.
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    • 1.Hilary Putnam's internal realism holds that truth conditions are fixed by our best theories, and moral discourse has the functional structure of a best-theory domain.
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    • 2.The error-theory escape route invoked in P3 is self-undermining: systematic moral falsehood would eliminate the normative standards needed to identify the error.
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    • 1.A set of truth-apt sentences cannot conjure the referents of those sentences into existence
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    • 2.The same points about propositional surface apply to theological discourse, which need not entail that God exists
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    • 3.It is possible that moral opinions are predominantly false, as with propositions of Greek mythology, even if they are truth-apt
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