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All the ideas for 'Is Hume's Principle analytic?', 'Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong' and 'Rationality and Goodness'

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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

8693	An 'abstraction principle' says two things are identical if they are 'equivalent' in some respect [Boolos]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4761	The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts [Mackie, by Engel]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / d. Virtue theory critique

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Good and bad are a matter of actions, not of internal dispositions [Foot]