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How far can Hume's is-ought thesis be generalized?

An investigation in alethic-deontic modal predicate logic

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Schurz, G. How far can Hume's is-ought thesis be generalized?. J Philos Logic 20, 37–95 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00454742

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