  This alternative construal of the argument leaves realists with the option of denying that the moral facts they posit are accessible. However, that is a move realists are typically not inclined to make. A persuasive argument to the effect that moral realists are committed to viewing moral facts as inaccessible would rather be seen as an embarrassment, as it would leave them, to use Russ Shafer-Landau’s phrase, with “a logically coherent position that contains about zero appeal”. (2012, 1). Indeed, some realists even make the claim that moral facts are epistemically accessible a part of their definition of the position (Boyd 1988, 182). A more common response is therefore to try to find ways to reconcile the existing disagreement both with the existence and with the accessibility of moral facts.