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Is–ought problem, an Uncommon card
The is–ought problem is the question of whether moral statements about what ought to be can be inferred from objective statements about what is.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 47
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 116 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was first articulated by the 18th-century Scottish philosopher David Hume, who saw a significant difference between descriptive statements and prescriptive statements.
- He argued that it is not obvious how one can coherently transition from descriptive statements to prescriptive ones.
- Hume's law or Hume's guillotine is the thesis that an ethical or judgemental conclusion cannot be inferred from purely descriptive factual statements.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Is–ought problem article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 47: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Is–ought problem (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Allan Ramsay, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
