Conjecture

A case reachable from several independent moral traditions survives the loss of any one of them, and Ord designs for that rather than arguing from a single foundation. He develops the argument from our future, our past, our character and our cosmic significance, and says the point of doing so is to show how people with many different understandings of morality could all end up at the same conclusion. This is a structural property of a position, not a rhetorical flourish: a conclusion resting on one tradition fails wherever that tradition is rejected, which is most places. Our own position is currently argued from one frame, and the convergence we have found has been accidental rather than designed.

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