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This is the famous open question argument.
Moore's answer is his "open question argument" (Moore, 1903).
All of these naturalistic definitions would fail the open question argument.
(For discussion of the Open Question Argument, see the entry on Moral Naturalism).
The open question argument has not been persuasive for several reasons.
Any kind of moral naturalist realist needs to reject Moore's open question argument.
Hence non-naturalists often give substantial weight to the intuitive force of the Open Question Argument.
However, the Open Question Argument can be given a non-question-begging interpretation.
Let's turn to two other worries that have been aired about the Open Question Argument.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Open Question Argument so understood still faces an impressive battery of objections.
The Open Question Argument proper does not terminate in a conditional but a categorical.
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