How to Prove Hume’s Law

Journal of Philosophical Logic 51 (3):603-632 (2021)
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Abstract

This paper proves a precisification of Hume’s Law—the thesis that one cannot get an ought from an is—as an instance of a more general theorem which establishes several other philosophically interesting, though less controversial, barriers to logical consequence.

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