Hume's Law

Hume's Law, also known as the is-ought problem, suggests that moral statements (what ought to be) cannot be directly derived solely from factual statements (what is). In other words, just because something is a certain way in reality doesn’t automatically tell us how we should behave or what values we should hold. This highlights the logical gap between describing facts and making moral judgments, emphasizing that ethical reasoning requires additional principles beyond mere facts.