is–ought problem
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hume's law, Hume's guillotine, fact–value gap, is–ought distinction
philosophical problem articulated by David Hume in 1739 about how one can deduce prescriptive statements (what ought to be) from descriptive statements (what is)
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- Named after
- David Hume
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- published in
- A Treatise of Human Nature
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