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en-wikipedia-org-8384		Moral nihilism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2822	580	48	Moral nihilism broadly today tends to take the form of an Error Theory: The view developed originally by J.L. Mackie in his 1977 book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Error theory and nihilism broadly take the form of a negative claim about the existence of objective values or properties. However, holding nihilism does not necessarily imply that we should give up using moral or ethical language; some nihilists contend that it remains a useful tool[4] In fact Mackie and other contemporary defenders of Error Theory (Richard Joyce, etc) defend the use of moral or ethical talk and action even in knowledge of their fundamental falsity. Ethical language: false versus not truth-apt[edit] In his book Morality without Foundations: A Defense of Ethical Contextualism (1999), Mark Timmons provides a reconstruction of Mackie's views in the form of the two related arguments. The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8384.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8384.txt