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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
Hume's law <=> We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
first principle <=> Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
logical positivism <=> Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
empirical statement <=> Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
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logical positivism
{ 1 } - We can't deduce an "ought" from an "is." Equivalently, we need a moral premise to deduce a moral conclusion.
{ 2 } - Known truth that requires no further proof or justification
{ 3 } - Any genuine truth claim is either empirical (testable by sense experience) or analytic (true by definition)
{ 4 } - Statement that is testable by sense experience (and thus can in principle be shown by sense experience to be true or at least highly probable)
{ 5 } - "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
prescriptivism (universal prescriptivism) <=> "You ought to do this" is a universalizable prescription (not a truth claim); it means "Do this and let everyone do the same in similar cases"
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