How to prove Hume’s Law

Gillian Russell

doi:10.1007/s10992-021-09643-3

How to prove Hume’s Law

Gillian Russell

School of Philosophy

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This paper proves a precisification of Hume’s Law—the thesis that one cannot get an ought from an is—as an instance of a more general theorem which establishes several other philosophically interesting, though less controversial, barriers to logical consequence.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Philosophical Logic
Volume	First Online
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-021-09643-3
Publication status	Published - 24 Nov 2021

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