Posts Tagged ‘is-ought problem’

December 12, 2009 0

Laws of Nature are Descriptive

By Tim H in Musings, Philosophy, Science

Not sure if I’m reinventing the wheel here, but recently I used a variation of David Hume’s is-ought problem in response to a debate opponent who claimed that the laws of nature were prescriptive, as opposed to descriptive.  In ethics, the is-ought problem states that we cannot derive a moral prescription out of a description [...]

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