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What Do People Really Mean When They Say Fuck?
Philosophers focus so much on moral language and frame their accounts in terms of what ordinary people mean. But for some puzzling reason, they then don't go out and do the empirical work to study what non philosophers mean. So I think that you are probably correct that what these philosophers are really interested in is the moral facts themselves, not the meanings of words.