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Does ‘Ought’ Conversationally Implicate ‘Can’?
Author(s) -
Streumer Bart
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0378.00184
Subject(s) - grice , erasmus+ , citation , philosophy , classics , pragmatics , library science , history , linguistics , art history , computer science , the renaissance
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that ‘ought’ does not entail ‘can’, but instead conversationally implicates it. I argue that Sinnott-Armstrong is actually committed to a hybrid view about the relation between ‘ought’ and ‘can’. I then give a tensed formulation of the view that ‘ought’ entails ‘can’ that deals with Sinnott-Armstrong’s argument and that is more unified than Sinnott-Armstrong’s view.

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