Getting from “Is” to “Ought” 1/ Let’s assume that there are no ought’s or should’s in this universe. There is only what *is*—the totality of actual (and possible) facts.
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You're not getting from facts to values, you're sneaking values in by simply declaring them to be facts. Begging the question.
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Accepting *anything* as a fact entails doing exactly that. As soon as you acknowledge that objective facts exist, you have accepted that an ought may be derived from an is, since (to use Sam's example) there are implied values inherent re: respect for evidence in every fact.
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No, that values are necessary for facts to exist does not lead to facts being sufficient for values
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What else is there?
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Skepticism, moral subjectivism.
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Both traceable to facts.
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But not morality
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Where does it come from then? What else is there in the Universe, except all there "is"?
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The biggest flaw is that you don't understand the is/ought gap. You've made no argument how to get from an is to an ought. Your claim is that we can get ought statements from our intuition, which is what Hume argues for too.
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