Abstract
The relation of the contingent and the necessary truths and between facts and duties is an important philosophical problem. Hume formulated it in a paradoxical form, arguing that people can, for the sake of momentary benefit, commit an act leading to bad consequences for themselves and for other people. This argument has been widely discussed in the literature, with different approaches and different interpretations. Here we propose to include in the reasoning not only moral, but also natural laws, so that the combination of two types of modalities in the premises would allow to get deductively a moral fact as a conclusion from another moral fact plus a connected combination of deontic and aletic modalities in the premises.
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