 Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether the reduction view is superior to the analysis view. One might argue that Adams’ analogy to ‘H2O is water’ is inappropriate, as the identification with water with H2O is clearly a posteriori, whereas the identification of the morally obligatory with the commanded by God is a priori. For if Adams is right in his characterization of the concept of obligation, it is not as if those who do not have the ability to infer from ‘this is morally obligatory’ to ‘this is commanded by a loving God’ (and vice versa) are just missing out on an interesting extra fact, the way that those without rudimentary chemistry are missing out on an interesting extra fact if they do not know that water is H2O. The term ‘water’ can play its role in our practical lives perfectly well without our knowing that it is H2O. The term ‘morally obligatory’ cannot play its role in our practical lives without our knowing that the morally obligatory is the commanded by God. No unintelligibility creeps into the life of agents that do not grasp that water is H2O; unintelligibility creeps into the life of agents that do not grasp that the morally obligatory is what is commanded by God.