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Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics

PART II
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Truth can be denied by actions as well as by words.

Thus, the violation of a contract is the denial by an action that the contract has been concluded.

Robbing a traveller is the denial that what you take from him is his.

An action that denies one or more true propositions cannot be good, and is necessarily bad.

A _good_ action is one whose omission would be bad or whose contrary is bad, in the above sense.


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