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This document discusses the analogy between moral rules and principles and rules of grammar. It notes that several philosophers have invoked this linguistic analogy in moral theory. Adam Smith compared rules of justice to rules of grammar. More recently, some theorists have seen analogies between moral theory and generative linguistic theory, as proposed by Chomsky. The document explores how the appeal to a linguistic analogy has implications for the methodology and structure of moral theory, and how some t

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