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Good and Bad Political Compromises

Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 98-105, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Political compromises are common. Parties that seek to influence society must inevitably make them. Populists often criticize such compromises, as compromising implies that an ideal outcome will not be achieved. In general, political compromises evoke strong emotions, particularly when they are perceived as problematic—morally or otherwise. In
Juha Räikkä
wiley   +1 more source

A new tableaux system for KD

CQD Revista Eletrônica Paulista de Matemática, 2020
The deontic logic is a particular case of modal logic that analyses relations among the concepts of obligation, permission and prohibition. We take the standard deontic logic KD, for which we introduce a new system of tableaux.
Romulo Albano de Freitas, Hércules de Araujo Feitosa   +1 more
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj  

Adaptive deontic logics : a survey [PDF]

, 2019
Adaptive Logics (ALs) are a viable and useful formal tool to handle various issues in deontic logic. In this paper, we motivate, explain, illustrate, and discuss the use of ALs in deontic logic.
Van De Putte, Frederik, Meheus, Joke, Beirlaen, Mathieu   +2 more
core  

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
doaj  

Accountability for amnesty

, 2010
Amnesties are evidently contentious issues. The issue of immunity and impunity is significant in the peace versus justice debate. What this thesis attempts is to explain the grant of amnesty as a legally permissible exception from the norm that those who
O'Connor, Simon
core  

Prohairetic Deontic Logic (PDL)

, 1998
In this paper we introduce Prohairetic Deontic Logic, a preference-based dyadic deontic logic.An obligation `A should be (done) if B is (done)' is true if (1) no $\neg$ A/\B is preferred to anA/\B and (2) the preferred B are A.
Leendert W. N. van der Torre, Tan, Yao-Hua, van der Torre, L., Yao-Hua Tan, van der Torre, Leendert W. N., Tan, Y.   +5 more
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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
doaj  

Adaptive domains of deontic reasoning

, 2006
Deontic reasoning is reasoning about permission and obligation: what one may do and what one must do, respectively. Conceivably, people could reason about deontic matters using a purely formal deontic calculus.
Fiddick, Laurence
core   +1 more source