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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schurz, Gerhard

Titel

The Is-Ought Problem : An Investigation in Philosophical Logic [Elektronische Ressource]

Ist Teil von

• Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library : 1

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Can OUGHT be derived from IS? This book presents an investigation of this time-honored problem by means of alethic-deontic predicate logic. New in this study is the leitmotif of relevance: is-ought inferences indeed exist, but they are all irrelevant in a precise logical sense. New proof techniques establish this result for very broad classes of logics. A profound philosophical analysis of is-ought bridge principles supplements the logical study. The final results imply incisive limitations for the justifiability of ethics as opposed to empirical science