"metaethical" meaning in English

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          "text": "In particular, I argue that (i) moral folkism leads us to the deflationary conclusion that many of the normative and metaethical questions that philosophers discuss are settled by empirical facts about what ordinary folk happen to mean by their words — and so they're not settled by mind-independent facts about reality.",
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        "(ethics) Of or pertaining to metaethics."
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