RE: Moral Oughts
August 29, 2019 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2019 at 8:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
No, but I suspect the same post will apply just as well to some future comment of your own.
...........lol
In any case, they only seem like separate statements for yet another unspoken evaluative.
Ofc John should be hit means that you should hit John....
.....unless we add a specific caveat. That just because someone should be hit, that doesn’t license you as the hitter. As Objectivist pointed out, realism is built on conditionals. It’s built on conditionals by necessity, since realism is fundamentally conditional to facts, by definition.
...........lol
In any case, they only seem like separate statements for yet another unspoken evaluative.
Ofc John should be hit means that you should hit John....
.....unless we add a specific caveat. That just because someone should be hit, that doesn’t license you as the hitter. As Objectivist pointed out, realism is built on conditionals. It’s built on conditionals by necessity, since realism is fundamentally conditional to facts, by definition.
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