[MD] A Science of Morals

[Horse]

Hi Steve

Isn't this the fact/value problem - how do we extract ought from is?
I would have thought that facts are a particular type of value - maybe 
high value statements about some aspect of our world.
It sounds quite encouraging that Harris doesn't see this as a problem.

Horse

On 03/04/2010 14:08, Steven Peterson wrote:
> Steve:
> There still seems to me to remain the problem of is/ought (which
> Harris says is not a problem). How can a description of how the world
> is tell us about how the world ought to be?
>
>    

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