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

    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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    • 1.Thick concepts like 'courageous' combine descriptive content (facing danger) with evaluative force (admiration), showing values embed in descriptions.
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    • 2.If thick concepts are genuinely meaningful and widely used, they must have stable descriptive anchors that bridge factual and evaluative dimensions.
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    • 3.Hare's strict is-ought gap requires evaluative meanings to be wholly non-descriptive, but this cannot account for how thick terms actually function linguistically.
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    • 1.Descriptive content in thick concepts (e.g., 'cruel' describing pain-infliction) remains logically separate from the evaluative judgment it triggers.
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    • 2.That evaluative and descriptive dimensions co-occur in language doesn't prove they're semantically unified; they may be psychologically linked but logically distinct.
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    • 3.Even if thick concepts blur the fact-value distinction in practice, Hare's logical is-ought gap remains valid as a normative epistemological principle about reasoning.
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