Well, suppose that sometimes, depending on context cues, I use “ought” to mean “paperclip-maximizing”, “prime-pile-maximizing”, and “actually-ought”.
There’s nothing wrong about the first two definitions, they’re totally reasonable definitions a word might have, they just shouldn’t be confused with the third definition, which specifies correct actions.
Well, suppose that sometimes, depending on context cues, I use “ought” to mean “paperclip-maximizing”, “prime-pile-maximizing”, and “actually-ought”.
There’s nothing wrong about the first two definitions, they’re totally reasonable definitions a word might have, they just shouldn’t be confused with the third definition, which specifies correct actions.