@article {1199, title = {The Exploding {\textquoteleft}Ought{\textquoteright}}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {21}, number = {3}, year = {2014}, pages = {338-362}, type = {State}, abstract = {In this paper I wish to discuss so-called principles of inheritance and the familiar claim that it leads to deontic paradoxes. By combining two such paradoxes it will be shown that inheritance amounts to a principle of explosion: supposing that in the actual world there is at least one thing that one ought to do, almost anything is something one ought to do. I will then attempt to qualify the principle of inheritance so as to avoid this and other paradoxical results.}, keywords = {Broome, deontic paradoxes, inheritance, ought, paradox of the Good Samaritan, Ross{\textquoteright}s paradox, Wedgwood}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/3/338-362.pdf}, author = {Botting, David} }