Comment by Torin_3 on 06/01/2020 at 01:37 UTC

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View submission: Has Hume's guillotine ever been credibly refuted by an accredited scholar of moral philosophy?

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Here's one claim that has been uncontroversially refuted that sometimes laypeople will say is the is-ought gap:
* No descriptive (non-normative, or 'is') sentence(s) alone entails a normative ('ought') sentence.

What's the uncontroversial refutation of that claim?

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Comment by justanediblefriend at 06/01/2020 at 02:16 UTC

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You can just take some descriptive sentence and its negation and derive some normative sentence.