Therefore the replacement argument cannot be conclusively established without a prior and contested resolution of the metaethical debate about whether motivation is internally or externally related to moral judgment.
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(Contrasted with substantive normative debates to argue against parity of reasoning)
A second-order dispute about the nature and resolvability of moral disagreements, as distinct from the moral disagreements themselves
moral judgment(The author stipulates reserving 'judgment' for the psychological sense to minimize confusion)
Ambiguous between (a) a psychological state or kind of thought and (b) a linguistic utterance
replacement argument(in ethics and philosophy of action)
A philosophical argument that claims one thing (like an emotion or desire) can be substituted for or take the place of another thing (like a moral judgment) in explaining why we act.