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  1. See Bernard Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, rev. ed., 2005), pp. 84-87; see also Bernard Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), p. 97.

  2. See Gert Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 160, and Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. x.

  3. See Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. vi.

  4. See ibid., p. 82.

  5. See Richard Feldman, “Good Arguments,” in Frederick F. Schmitt, ed., Socializing Epistemology (Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1994); see also Alvin I. Goldman, “Argumentation,” in Knowledge in a Social World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

  6. See Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 346.

  7. Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. 82.

  8. See ibid., pp. 16–17.

  9. See Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification, p. 4, and Gert, Common Morality: Deciding What to Do, p. 16; see also Thomas Magnell, “The Place for Coherence and Moral Rules in Ethics,” Journal of Value Inquiry, vol. 28 no. 3, 1994, p. 472.

  10. I would like to thank the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire for support that allowed the completion of an early version of this article, Bernard Gert for his helpful comments on several drafts, and Thomas Magnell, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for his comments and help in revision.

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Triplett, T. Justifying Morality, Part II: Beyond Justification as Clarification. J Value Inquiry 45, 403–417 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-011-9307-8

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