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    Any practical argument that concludes with a prescriptive statement must contain at least one prescriptive statement among its premises

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    • 1.Descriptive premises state only what is the case
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    • 2.A prescriptive conclusion cannot logically follow from purely descriptive premises
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    • 1.Searle's 'institutional facts' (e.g., 'This is a promise') are descriptive yet carry inherent normative force by constituting obligations.
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    • 2.If descriptive statements about institutional facts logically entail obligations, then prescriptive conclusions can follow without prescriptive premises.
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    • 1.Philippa Foot argued that 'rude' and similar thick ethical concepts are descriptive of observable behavior yet logically license prescriptive conclusions.
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    • 2.If thick evaluative concepts are genuinely descriptive in meaning, Hare's fact-value gap cannot be absolute, undermining the strict is-ought barrier.
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    As Kelsen saw it, there is simply no alternative. More precisely, any alternative would violate David Hume’s injunction against deriving an “ought” from an “is”. Hume famously argued that any practical argument that concludes with some prescriptive statement, a statement of the kind that one ought to do this or that, would have to contain at least one prescriptive statement in its premises. If all the premises of an argument are descriptive, telling us what this or that is the case, then there i
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