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| Summary: | 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.
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| Physical Description: | x, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332). |
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| ISBN: | 0792344103 (hard : alk. paper) |
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