 What is the status of these evolving definitions? One obvious proposal is that they are simply terminological stipulations intended to inform the reader about how these authors have decided to use the term “morality”. But that’s clearly not what’s intended, since Shweder, Turiel, and Much (1981: 289) insist that “[t]he meaning of ‘morality’ is something discovered, not stipulated”. Another possibility is that the definitions are attempts to capture the ordinary meaning of the term as it is used by speakers of contemporary English. But that proposal is also clearly mistaken. “The terminology”, Turiel tells us,