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The is–ought problem is a philosophical problem of how knowledge of the present world does not necessarily lead to knowledge of how the world ought to be. This
by cjohansson 6y ago
The is–ought problem is a philosophical problem of how knowledge of the present world does not necessarily lead to knowledge of how the world ought to be. This is also sometimes referred to as Hume's law or "Hume's Guillotine".[2]
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem
- bordercases 6y agoThis concept is too abstract for what the post is actually pointing at, which is the tradeoff between expressivity of a language vs consistency in language use, and the cognitive load required to move from the former to the latter when developing software. Here the is-ought distinction breaks down since the state-of-affairs is almost entirely decidable by humans. At that point it's a question of comparing different oughts since the constraints involved are not based in nature, but convention.