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    One cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is' (Hume's is-ough... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Descriptive facts about circumstances do not prescribe what one ought to do in light of those circumstances.

    One cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is' (Hume's is-ought gap).

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    Published the same year as The Postmodern Condition, Lyotard’s Just Gaming (Au juste) is short, but nevertheless deserves its place among a canon of important 20th-century texts on justice, along with his The Differend. After Libidinal Economy, through a series of shorter works, Lyotard argued that we live again in pagan societies with many gods to be worshipped. By this he means that we live among and through a variety of language games (science, art, politics, and so on) (Just Gaming, 36). His

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