Is–ought problem
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The is–ought problem is the question of whether moral statements about what ought to be can be inferred from objective statements about what is. It was first articulated by the 18th-century Scottish p
The philosopher David Hume raised the is–ought problem in his book A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40).
Allan Ramsay David Hume, 1711 1776. Historian and philosopher Google Art Project
Buridan's ass
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Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely
Is–ought problem
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Political cartoon c. 1900, showing the United States Congress as Buridan's ass (in the two hay piles version), hesitating between a Panama route or a Nicaragua route for an Atlantic–Pacific canal