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Factual Premises and Moral Premises

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A moral argument runs on two kinds of premise: factual premises report how the world is, and at least one moral premise supplies the should.

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"The proposed curfew closes the night shelters; policies that close shelters wrong the people sleeping there; so the curfew is wrong." One fact, one should.