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    It is not the case that Value judgments can be assessed instrumentally, in terms of how well they perform their function of constituting new valuings that solve the individual's predicament

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    • 1.Value judgments possess intrinsic normative authority that cannot be reduced to their functional efficacy in resolving psychological predicaments.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative demonstrates that moral judgments derive validity from rational universalizability, not from their problem-solving consequences.
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    • 3.An instrumental assessment of value judgments collapses the distinction between what resolves a predicament and what is genuinely right or good.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's open question argument establishes that defining goodness by any natural property, including functional success, commits the naturalistic fallacy.
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    • 2.If 'solving the individual's predicament' fully captured the meaning of a correct value judgment, asking 'but is it truly good?' would be unintelligible, yet it manifestly is not.
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    • 1.The function of value judgments is to constitute new valuings
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    • 2.These new valuings solve the individual's predicament
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    • 3.Things can be assessed in terms of how well they perform their function
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