Argument from queerness
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An argument with two limbs: metaphysically, objective moral properties would be intrinsically prescriptive and unlike anything natural; epistemologically, we would need a special faculty to detect them.
Objective values would be metaphysically odd entities and would require a strange faculty of intuition to detect.
Topics that use Argument from queerness
- Meta-ethics (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Argument from relativity
- Belief versus desire/passion
- Cognitivism
- Cognitivism and truth-aptness
- Descriptive versus normative language
- Emotion and attitudes as a source of moral principles
- Emotivism
- Error theory
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