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Reply to Almeida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2004

MARK C. MURPHY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 215 New North, Washington, DC 20057
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Michael J. Almeida offers two criticisms of the argument of my ‘A trilemma for divine command theory’. The first criticism is that I mistakenly assume the validity of the following inference pattern: property A is identical to property B; property B supervenes on property C; therefore, property A supervenes on property C. The second criticism is that I have misinterpreted the moral-supervenience thesis upon which I rely in making this argument. The first of Almeida's criticisms is completely untenable. The second of his criticisms casts doubt on my argument, a doubt that I can mitigate but not entirely dispel.

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© 2004 Cambridge University Press