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Thread: "is" to "ought"

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    hint: It's about ethics; moral decisions and judgements etc.
    Emotivism, and how it leads to pescriptivism etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Proper Bo, I tell thee
    What do you understand by the "is"/"ought" dichotomy?
    Do you agree that you can't get from "is" to "ought"?
    Well....Good luck with that, *runs*
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proper Bo, I tell thee
    hint: It's about ethics; moral decisions and judgements etc.
    Emotivism, and how it leads to pescriptivism etc.
    So I've answered it perfectly, then
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proper Bo, I tell thee
    hint: It's about ethics; moral decisions and judgements etc.
    Emotivism, and how it leads to pescriptivism etc.
    Although short my sentence encapsulated all this.
    Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum


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    totally lost

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    Bujub: There's a schocker!

    Biggles and manker, useful, reaaally useful


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    You better go by the book then. Rather than usage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Proper Bo, I tell thee
    hint: It's about ethics; moral decisions and judgements etc.
    Emotivism, and how it leads to pescriptivism etc.
    CORRECTION !!!

    hint: It IS about ethics

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    They think F Hicks come from North Shields.
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    Wha?

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