 Note a couple of points. First, there is nothing in normative realism that commits realists to holding that the normative properties and facts are robustly normative rather than merely formally normative. But we have set aside normative formalism. In what follows, we consider attempts to account for robust normativity. Second, as we will explain in  section 3.4,  normative realism is compatible with a kind of normative conceptualism, and this means that realists are not committed to holding that the wordly states of affairs that are the truth conditions of normative propositions, and the properties that are ascribed by normative predicates, are themselves normative. They could hold instead, roughly, that normativity is a feature only of normative concepts.