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    If 'ought' shifts its reference with each agent's ends, t... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Indexing 'ought' to different ends fails as an analysis of moral obligation

    If 'ought' shifts its reference with each agent's ends, the valid inference from 'You ought to keep promises' and 'This is a promise' to 'You ought to keep this promise' breaks down.

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    Key Terms

    Ends(in ethics, 'ends' are contrasted with 'means' (the methods used to reach them))
    Goals or purposes that someone is trying to achieve; what motivates an action.
    agent(Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    breaks down(as used in philosophical analysis)
    Stops working or fails—in this case, the comparison between two things turns out to be flawed or incomplete.
    ought(Deontic logic and normative theory)
    A strict (all-or-nothing) deontic modal, treated as a propositional operator
    reference(Distinguished from intension in the context of possible worlds semantics)

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    valid inference(Used within informal logic's definition of a good argument)
    A conclusion that follows from the premises

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