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The Necessity of Moral Realism

According to M.E. Fox and A.C.F.A. d’Avalos, logic dictates that at least some moral propositions must be true.

“Eating people is wrong” is an indicative moral proposition rather than an imperative moral statement such as “you ought not to eat people”. Indicative moral propositions like “eating people is wrong” are meaningful and are truth-assessable. All this means is that the statement “eating people is wrong” is either true or false. All indicative moral propositions, if they are meaningful, are either true or false. Moral realism is the theory that at least one indicative moral propositions is true.

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