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Thick Ethical Concepts Posed a Challenge to 'No Ought From Is'

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 7:22 am
by Veritas Aequitas
Thick Ethical Concepts
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thic ... -concepts/

2.1 The Is-Ought Gap and the Fact-Value Distinction
It is common to think that the intuitive contrast between is and ought marks an important gap between distinct domains, and sometimes this gap is identified as a distinction between “facts” and “values”.

Thick concepts may be thought to challenge such dichotomies between facts and values (Murdoch 1970; Williams 1985: 140–5; Dancy 1995; Putnam 2002: 34–45).
Here are the Contents from the above article;
  • 1. What Are Thick Concepts? Background and Preliminaries
    2. Do Thick Concepts Have Distinctive Significance?
    • 2.1 The Is-Ought Gap and the Fact-Value Distinction
      2.2 The “Anti-Disentangling” Argument
      2.3 Reflection, Knowledge, and Priority
    3. The Combination Question: How Do Thick Concepts Relate Evaluation and Description?
    • 3.1 Separabilist Views
      3.2 Inseparabilist Views
    4. The Location Question: How Are Thick Concepts Evaluative?
    • 4.1 The Semantic View
      4.2 Pragmatic Views
    5. The Delineation Question: How Do Thick and Thin Concepts Differ?
    • 5.1 Thick and Thin Differ in Kind
      5.2 Thick and Thin Differ in Degree
    6. Thick Concepts Outside of Ethics
I suggest those Moral-Facts-Deniers read the above thoroughly to understand the above is a restraint to their arrogance and false claims.
This OP's point together with other Moral Facts arguments will expose their No-Moral-Fact theory* as false.

* in addition to the deniers' claim 'Fact Cannot be Evaluative' and NOFI [No Ought From Is]

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