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    It is not the case that There is no non-natural property of goodness

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    • 1.There is significant diversity of moral opinion across individuals and cultures
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    • 2.Ultimate values cannot be proven when moral opinions diverge
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    • 1.Moore's open question argument shows 'good' cannot be defined by any natural property without generating a meaningful residual question.
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    • 2.If 'good' were a natural property, 'Is what maximizes pleasure actually good?' would be trivially analytic, but it is clearly synthetic.
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    • 3.The non-trivial openness of such questions reveals that natural properties exhaust descriptive facts, leaving 'goodness' as a conceptual redundancy.
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    • 1.Mackie's argument from queerness establishes that non-natural properties would require a bizarre metaphysical category unlike anything in empirical science.
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    • 2.Ockham's razor demands we not multiply entities beyond necessity when expressivism or error theory can explain moral discourse without non-natural properties.
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    • 3.Blackburn's quasi-realism demonstrates that all functional roles attributed to non-natural goodness can be preserved within a naturalistic, projectivist framework.
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