ought definition

ought. .14 This means that “liberty” can also have (at least) the two meanings that correspond to the negations of the two meanings of duty: a relational liberty (the absence of a relational duty) or an overall not-the-case-that-ought. These meanings, although related, are importantly distinct. My account of legitimacy implies that it also has these two distinct uses: one relational, the other overall.
ought here means that the RES Directive, which encourages output not investment, is flawed and thus encourages the UK and others to support the wrong aspect of the technologies. It would be desirable to start making that case when the EU comes to benchmarking Member State performance.
ought means ‘what we have the strongest impartial reasons to do’.

More Definitions of ought

ought means a prescriptive property of states of affairs of the form x does mean A in circumstances C’ is exactly as legitimate as ‘“red” means a descriptive, indeed,
ought means desirability of action.
ought is the Greek word “dei” which means in this sense that