Abstract

This chapter discusses several further defences of realism. It argues that reductive realists cannot defend their view by appealing to underspecified descriptive predicates, that reductive realists cannot defend their view by appealing to the reduction argument, that non-reductive realists cannot defend their view by appealing to the false guarantee and regress objections, and that reductive realists cannot defend their view by saying that the difference between normative and descriptive properties is a difference in the nature of these properties. The chapter ends by showing that the conclusions of the previous two chapters together entail that normative properties do not exist.