ABSTRACT
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) definitions of ethic may serve as much to confuse as to elucidate. In section B (section A considers the adjectival meanings of the word, which I will deal with under the term ethical), the OED handles the word ethic in its “substantive” or noun form, when it has the following meanings:
I. Singular (ethic) 1.a The science of morals; 1.b A scheme of moral science.
