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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
This is emotivism.
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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
An ought judgment is a universalizable prescription. Like a simple imperative, it tells us what to do (instead of stating a fact). But it's also universalizable -- in that it logically commits us to making similar evaluations about similar cases.
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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
This is closer to the ideal observer view.
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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
This is closer to cultural relativism.
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Ima Prescriptivist holds that "You ought to do this" means
{ 1 } - Hurrah for doing this!
{ 2 } - Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases.
{ 3 } - An ideally informed and impartial being would prescribe that you do this.
{ 4 } - Society prescribes that everyone do this.
{ 5 } - God prescribes that everyone do this.
This is closer to supernaturalism.
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