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Deontic Sufficiency in Dyadic Deontic Logic
In this paper, we introduce and study the logics for conditionals of the form “Given φ, it suffices to do ψ”, which are known as “deontic sufficiency” in the deontic logic literature and are useful in the decision and game theory contexts. We completely axiomatize the logics under different assumptions about the properties of the preference relations ...
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In defence of deontic diversity
Journal of Logic and Computation, 2015 The normative terms of natural language have a variety of usages, and their logical properties differ between these usages.
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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, 2021 Adaptive Logics (ALs) are a viable and useful formal tool to handle various aspects of normative reasoning. In this chapter, we motivate, explain, illustrate, and discuss the use of ALs in deontic logic.
Van De Putte, Frederik +2 more
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, 2020 Deontic logic (from Ancient Greek déon, what is right) aims to formalize the links existing between the notions of obligation, prohibition, permission and optionality.
Piolle, Guillaume +7 more
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, 2023 Deontic authority refers to the capacity of a person to determine action. It is about defining what “ought-to-be”—what will be forbidden, obligatory, or permissible (the ancient Greek word deon, “that which is binding”; Stevanovic & Peräkylä 2012 ...
Melisa Stevanovic
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DEONTIC MODALITY AND MODALS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CONTRACTS
, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to present most typical methods of expressing deontic modality, namely obligation, prohibition and permission in Polish, American and British contracts.
Aleksandra E. Matulewska
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Designing compliant business processes with obligations and permissions. Business process management workshops. [PDF]
The sequence and timing constraints on the activities in business processes are an important aspect of business process compliance. To date, these constraints are most often implicitly transcribed into control-flow-based process models.
Vanthienen, Jan, Goedertier, Stijn
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Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie +2 more
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