A Reply to “Mind the (is-ought) Gap”
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چکیده
A.N. Prior’s (1960) famous counterexamples to ethical autonomy involve cases where nonnormative premises entail a normative conclusion. Consider, for example, a normative claim N and a non-normative claim M. If N v M is non-normative, then the non-normative ~M & (N v M) entails the normative N. If the disjunction is normative, then it is entailed by the non-normative M. The entailments are impeccable; in the ordinary sense of entailment, we really do have a case of the normative being entailed by the non-normative.
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