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want to mention a couple of other definitions of 'objective'
for future reference.
- A moral judgment can be called objective if it tells us
something about the person or action being judged rather than
something about the speaker. For example, in a context in which
the criterion of goodness is having certain consequences, saying
that X is good tells us something about X, not the speaker. On the
other hand, if "X is good" describes or expresses the
attitudes of the speaker, it tells us something about the speaker
rather than about X.
- A moral judgment can be called objective if we can offer reasons
for accepting it. This seems to be the view taken by the
philosopher Marcus Singer.
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