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[dangerzooey]

Dangerzooey's Law #1:

The Ought-Is FallacyYou may be familiar with the naturalistic fallacy, the is-ought fallacy, but this is another fallacy entirely. The ought-is fallacy is committed by such diverse thinkers as Plato, Berkeley, Hobbes, G.E. Moore, Roderick Chisholm, Richard Taylor, Peter Van Inwagen, most Kantians, all Hegelians, and nearly

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[dangerzooey]

I kind of like my name for it. I mean, it is clearly an anti-Moorean fallacy. A direct response to the is-ought "fallacy".

It ought to be the case that P.
Therefore, it is the case that P.

Is just as bad, if not worse than:

It is the case that P.
Therefore, it ought to be the case that P.

[dangerzooey]

Sadly, nearly all of contemporary metaethics listens to Moore.