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nonnaturalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
non-nat-u-ral-ism
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The metaethical view that (i) ethical sentences express propositions; (ii) some such propositions are true; (iii) those propositions are made true by objective features of the world, independent of human opinion; and (iv) these moral features of the world are not reducible to any set of non-moral features.

Uncountable

Etymology

From non- + naturalism.

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What does nonnaturalism mean?
The metaethical view that (i) ethical sentences express propositions; (ii) some such propositions are true; (iii) those propositions are made true by objective features of the world, independent of human opinion; and (iv) these moral features of the world are not reducible to any set of non-moral features.
Where does nonnaturalism come from?
From non- + naturalism.

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