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Agglomeration of 'Ought'

§ Introduction My aim in this post is to argue that the ‘ought,’ predicate, interpreted in a global sense, agglomerates. I’ll henceforth refer to this position as agglomeration. The position is as follows. Agglomeration: If “I ought to do A,” and “I ought to do B,” then “I ought to...

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Agglomeration of 'Ought'

Dec 15, 2023•1

DavidAndresBloom

Agglomeration of 'Ought'

DavidAndresBloom

§ Introduction

My aim in this post is to argue that the ‘ought,’ predicate, interpreted in a global sense, agglomerates. I’ll henceforth refer to this position as agglomeration. The position is as follows.

Agglomeration: If “I ought to do A,” and “I ought to do B,” then “I ought to do A and B,” where A and B are actions, and “A and B,” is a weak conjunctive action.

I use the term ‘weak conjunctive action,’ to mean an action of the form “A and B,” where A and B are actions. For any agent X, the sentence “X did ‘A and B,’” is true at time t when (1) “X did A,” is true at... (read 3115 more words →)