The Scottish philosopher David Hume famously deduced that you cannot derive an ought from an is.
I’m having trouble wrapping my brain around this. Can someone explain to this to me in simplified terms?
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It’s the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive explanations of things. Just because anything in the world is the way it currently is, that never means that’s the way that it absolutely should be. Or at least, that’s not enough to explain why it should be the way it is, per se.
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