[ExI] About bullet-swallowing

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Thu May 22 19:11:56 UTC 2008


At 07:57 PM 5/22/2008 +0200, Stathis wrote:

>You can't get an ought from an is, and if you try, it
>makes you look like a crackpot.

Well, you can, if your "ought" is prudential. (And I'm inclined to 
argue that ethics always is prudential, and hence subject to revision 
and improvement as new information about the "is" comes in.)

Damien Broderick 




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