ABSTRACT
In order to make a moral judgement one must belong or be related to a moral practice within which, quite independently of any decision on the part of those who belong to that practice, certain facts entail that some things are right or wrong. For those who belong to a moral practice there must be certain occasions on which there is no gap between fact and value, on which such-and-such being right or wrong is entailed by such-and-such being the case. It is clear, that from within a moral practice certain moral judgements will follow from certain facts, and they will appear not to do so only to someone who does not share that practice. On R. M. Hare's account, there is never a transition from fact to value except as a result of a decision.
