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Interpretative Models of Legal Language

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The interpretative process of legal language is an activity aimed at reconstructing the mental representation of meaning. According to juridical linguistics, correct understanding of legal language requires more than mere linguistic skills: it needs ...
Olga V. Kobzeva
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A Defense of Scalar Utilitarianism [PDF]

, 2017
Scalar Utilitarianism eschews foundational notions of rightness and wrongness in favor of evaluative comparisons of outcomes. I defend Scalar Utilitarianism from two critiques, the first against an argument for the thesis that Utilitarianism's ...
Tobia, Kevin Patrick
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Actualism, Possibilism, and the Nature of Consequentialism [PDF]

, 2020
The actualism/possibilism debate in ethics is about whether counterfactuals of freedom concerning what an agent would freely do if they were in certain circumstances even partly determines that agent’s obligations.
Cohen, Yishai, Timmerman, Travis
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Deontic Redundancy: A Fundamental Challenge for Deontic Logic [PDF]

, 2010
To decide which norms can be removed from a system, we need to know when a norm is redundant. After shifting the focus of attention in deontic logic from detachment of obligations and permissions to deontic redundancy, I discuss in this paper five benchmark examples of deontic redundancy in reasoning about permissions, intermediate concepts and ...
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Non-verbal markers of modality and evidentiality in MarENG

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
This article examines a variety of options for expressing speaker and writer stance in a subcorpus of MarENG, a maritime English learning tool sponsored by the EU (35,041 words). Non-verbal markers related to key areas of modal expression are presented; (
Silvia Molina
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Critique of Telic Power

Journal of Social Ontology
Åsa Burman has recently introduced the important notion of telic power and differentiated it from deontic power in an attempt to build a bridge between ideal and non-ideal social ontology.
Sandro Guli, Luca Moretti
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Investigating Algerian Use of English Modals: The Case of Second Year Master Students of English at the University “Frères Mentouri”, Constantine 1

Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2018
The acquisition and application of English modals in appropriate contexts are among the essential aspects of second and foreign language acquisition.
Salima SELMEN
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Scaling deontic modality in parliamentary discourse [PDF]

Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2016
In the paper we apply the scalarity principle to deontic modality and classify it into strong, medium and weak, with the ends of the spectrum suggesting the highest and the lowest degrees of imposition and necessity. We study the two extremes, the strong
Milica Vuković Stamatović
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A Paradox of Inferentialism [PDF]

, 2015
John McDowell articulated a radical criticism of normative inferentialism against Robert Brandom’s expressivist account of conceptual contents. One of his main concerns consists in vindicating a notion of intentionality that could not be reduced to the ...
Turbanti, Giacomo
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Introduction. Reconsidering Some Dogmas About Desire [PDF]

, 2017
Desire has not been at the center of recent preoccupations in the philosophy of mind. Consequently, the literature settled into several dogmas. The first part of this introduction presents these dogmas and invites readers to scrutinize them.
Deonna, Julien, Lauria, Federico
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