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T 3.1.1.20

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Shou'd it be asserted, that the sense of morality consists in the discovery of some relation, distinct from these, and that our enumeration was not compleat, when we comprehended all demonstrable relations under four general heads: To this I know not what to reply, till some one be so good as to point out to me this new relation. 'Tis impossible to refute a system, which has never yet been explain'd. In such a manner of fighting in the dark, a man loses his blows in the air, and often places them where the enemy is not present.

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Ainslie 1999III.i.1
T 3.1.1 (30 paragraphs)
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…uments about moral judgement in the Section "Moral distinctions not deriv'd from reason" (III.i.1) take on a new ligh…