Oughts

Yet Mendel's scientific papers themselves have not a bit of moral evaluation within them: no prescriptions, no exhortations, no "shoulds" or "oughts" -- only the straightforward exposition of observations and hypotheses. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And lest you think this is a rhetorical goof, he follows it up with a truly wankerrific list of further "oughts" -- "After all, it ought to be true that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Unfortunately, arriving at a moral framework that incoprates these "oughts" requires instructions from outside of mankind, which leads to discussion of religion and Ms. Rand hated religion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Singer is no different and his "oughts" are merely a product of his desire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If you take the time to follow these guidelines, you will notice what you'd like to develop over the next year, devoid of any "oughts" and rich in joy. ❋ Dr. Cara Barker (2010)

The time Chamillionaire, aka Hakeem Seriki, refers to is around that of the early "oughts," when the Web was still a fledgling entity, nowhere near what it is now to the consumer masses. ❋ Mike Isaac (2010)

Thus, when I refer to "property rights", I am not referring to my own personal set of "oughts" with regard to property. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor do I see why it is difficult for you to make the conceptual transition from the absolute prohibition to the entirely situational (and relative) "oughts" that we've encoded in our criminal and civil codes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It's a set of conceptual "oughts" derived by deduction from an idealized set of conceptual "shalts" that have no absolute standing in empirical human experience. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It can say nothing about qualitative phenomena, nothing about moral "oughts," nothing about non-material beings or realities we cannot pin down, stick on a slide and view under a microscope. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And if no God, no absolute morality, anyway - nothing matters, no 'oughts' in an impersonal chance universe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We call these "oughts," and it is from these transcendent concepts that morality arises. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A materialistic universe has no 'oughts' (the basis of all morality) it just is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Ben Wiker is on the right track, but we need a more nuanced discussion of what it means to say that "oughts" arises from "is". ❋ Unknown (2004)

And I argue in the first stage, "Yes, but whether or not there's the demand, there are 'oughts'; there are 'shoulds'; there are things people should know, even if they don't know yet that they should know it," particularly in foreign news coverage. ❋ Unknown (1990)

All the arts are expressible in "oughts"; and if there is a more authoritative and categorical nature to moral laws than there is, for example, to the aesthetic laws that art-study reveals, it is because aesthetics deals with only one aspect of human good and ethics with its totality. ❋ Durant Drake (N/A)