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? Michael Lacewing ? Michael Lacewing Metaethics: an overview Michael Lacewing enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk Cognitivism There is moral knowledge. Moral judgments are expressions of belief, and can be true or false. Moral realism: there are moral properties, and moral judgments can ‘fit the facts’. But what kinds of truth are moral truths, and how do we discover them? Naturalistic fallacy G E Moore’s ‘naturalistic fallacy’: moral properties are not natural properties, e.g. goodness is not happiness. Open question argument: ‘Is happiness goodness?’ is open; ‘Is happiness happiness?’ is not.