道德哲学可以做澄清道德概念及语句的工作，但对它是否能提供对道德规范的可靠论证或为其奠基则易受质疑。

Moral philosophy works in clarifying moral concepts and sentence, but is it able to provide solid argumentation or ground for moral principles?

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当然，不同国家间社会演进的类比并不可靠，我的论证主要也不是以这样的类比为基础。

All parallels between developments in different countries are, of course, deceptive; but I am not basing my argument mainly on such parallels.

youdao

这需要思想者们构造健全的标准以分析论证他们的思维，并且根据他们的标准来鉴定他们想法的可靠性。

This requires that they develop sound criteria and standards for analyzing and assessing their own thinking and routinely use those criteria and standards to improve its quality.

youdao

So although I don't like, I don't believe the argument is sound-- Premise one doesn't happen to be the premise I myself would want to reject.

尽管我不喜欢,或是我不认为这条论证可靠,但前提一恰是我想要反驳的,它作为前提并非偶然

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