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This is the verbatim manuscript of a paper which has circulated underground for close to thirty years, reaching a metaethical conclusion close to J. L. Mackie's by a somewhat different route.
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Burgess, J.P. (2010). Against Ethics. In: Joyce, R., Kirchin, S. (eds) A World Without Values. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3339-0_1
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