David Hume
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Q&A: The Is-Ought Gap: 7 Apr 2013, Question 2
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Question: What is the solution to the is-ought problem? David Hume famously claimed that statements about what ought to be cannot be derived from statements about what is the case. Does that mean that ethics is impossible? Can the gap be bridged, and if so, how?
Tags: David Hume, Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Objectivism