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is-ought problem

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables
is-ought prob-lem
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The problem of whether prescriptive statements, stating what the case ought to be, can be derived from descriptive statements—stating what the case is.

Inflected Forms

is–ought problem (canonical) is-ought problems (plural) is/ought problem (alternative)

Phrases

Hume's law naturalistic fallacy

Frequently Paired Words

Hume's law naturalistic fallacy

Questions

What does is-ought problem mean?
The problem of whether prescriptive statements, stating what the case ought to be, can be derived from descriptive statements—stating what the case is.

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