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Hume's law

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Hume's law
n
(Philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that an evaluative statement cannot be derived from purely factual premises, often formulated as: one can't derive an ``ought'' from an ``is'' See also naturalistic fallacy
[named after David Hume (1711-76), Scottish empiricist philosopher, economist, and historian]


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