Professional Ethics: Proposition Types

Moral Propositions

The type of propositions where the writer is  show some sort of concern to the moral rightness or wrongness, goodness or badness of something; a stance regarding what morally ought to or shouldn't happen, regarding the  ethical rights, duties and responsibilities of varied individuals and thus on. Again, a lot of like descriptive propositions, it's irrelevant to a proposition’s categorization as an ethical proposition whether or not it's advanced tentatively or with nice confidence, whether or not it's accepted by you or not and thus on. All that matters is that the author is indeed proposing some variety of ethical worth judgment. 

Moral propositions nearly always use turns of phrase like ‘should’, ‘good’ and thus on to specific the ethical judgment being made; such Clue Words, as I referred to as them, are, however, not a mindless recipe for the allocation of propositions as ethical ones. They're however clues and will be employed in conjunction with an intelligent appraisal of the sentence and its context as all of the clue words includes a non-moral use as well. Examples will help understand better.

Descriptive Propositions

These propositions are those really talking about what simple fact is like. They might be preliminary efforts, or even be absolute risky uncertainty or they might be established facts. They might worry issues of particular element or be large significant generalizations. They might be real or they might be incorrect. Whatever the element of all of that is, we call them ‘descriptive propositions’ – efforts to explain what simple fact is like. Analysis of the examples is discussed in details in order to make the proposition crystal clear.

Conceptual Propositions

Conceptual propositions neither tell us what the planet is like nor pass ethical judgment upon it; rather, they create claims regarding the relationships among ideas. My experience has been that this is the proposition type typically students have most difficulty understanding – may be because such propositions do not often occur in routine life.

Ambiguous Propositions

Ambiguous propositions are those that are not clearly one proposition sort or another as they stand – it all depends on how some specific idea expression is taken. Some propositions have the tendency to be ethical(moral) one or may well be a detailed(descriptive) one; we simply cannot tell. (Note that some propositions that may are ambiguous if thought to be in solitude might have that potential ambiguity resolved by the context of their prevalence.) The possible and the common type of ambiguity would be between descriptive and moral propositions.

Mixed Propositions

Mixed propositions are those where more than one proposition exists in the sentence with one of them being a moral proposition and the other being a descriptive proposition

Finally, for completeness, a given sentence may constitute of a mixture of a conceptual proposition and some other basic variety or it might be ambiguous as to whether what is present is a conceptual proposition or some other primary type. Now after thorough look at the types we are in a position to discuss few examples.