It is a “significant” or non-analytic proposition because a competent speaker can believe that X is the act that will produce the best consequences without believing that she ought to do it. If the two propositions “X is the act available to me that will produce the best consequences” and “I ought to do X” were really synonymous, then a competent speaker could not believe the one whilst remaining in doubt about the other. Since this is perfectly possible (as is shown by the fact that “Ought I to