Mackie

According to Mackie, there are no objective values.

True

Mackie calls his position a(n)

error theory

One key premise in the argument from relativity is that

Different societies have different moral beliefs.

“The actual variations in the moral codes are more readily explained by the hypothesis that they reflect ways of ___ than by the hypothesis that they express ___…of objective values.”

life, perceptions

One reply to the Argument from Relativity is the claim that there are “very general basic _______ which are recognized at least implicitly to some extent in all society.”

principles

According to the Argument from Queerness (part 1), “If there were objective values, then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a ____ _____ _____, utterly different from anything else in the universe.”

very strange sort

According to the Argument from Queerness (part 2), if we were aware of objective values, “it would have to be by some special faculty of moral ___ or ___, utterly different from our ordinary ways of knowing everything else.”

perception, intuition

According to Mackie, our knowledge of many things besides morality is also non-empirical.

False

According to Mackie, ________.

We have no idea how objective moral qualities could be linked to natural features of the world.

Moral facts cause us to make moral observations and judgments which then motivate our actions.

According to Mackie, “the supposed objectivity of moral qualities” arises “from what we can call the ____ or ____ of moral attitudes.”

projection, objectification