 This would allow the error theorist to affirm the truth of (2) above, and thus get out of the contradiction without sacrificing her commitment to error theory. Error theory doesn’t, after all, require one to deny the truth of all normative claims! And while this more nuanced error theory has lost a lot of the shock-value of the original rough formulation, it still stays true to the motivating idea that there are no instantiated normative properties, and no facts to normatively constrain us in the world (though there are “negative” normative facts, like the fact that this painting is not beautiful).