How to pronounce“ought”in English
Well, it's a book that I had always envisioned writing, because like many social scientists, I think that many of the tools that we use in our own research
ought to be at the fingertips of every educated person, that everyone should have some grasp of probability, of logic, of Bayesian reasoning, of distinguishing correlation
from causation. I taught a course at Harvard as the pandemic unfolded called Rationality.
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Definitions of “ought”
simple past of owe
“There was a certayne lender / which had two detters / the one ought five hondred pence / and the other fifty.”
Alternative spelling of aught; anything
“Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?”
Alternative spelling of aught; at all, to any degree.
A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.
“There are value judgments that are not reducible to observable matters of fact, and there are oughts that cannot be construed as hypothetical and, therefore, cannot be converted into statements of fact.”
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