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Deontic ‘cocktail’ according to E. Mally’s receipt [PDF]

, 2013
In 1926, Ernst Mally, an Austrian logician, has introduced a system of deontic logic in which he has proposed three fundamental distinctions which proved to be important in the context of the further development of the logic of norms.
Elena, Lisanyuk
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Obligation as permission : a sound and strongly complete axiomatization [PDF]

, 2016
In (Anglbergeret al., 2015, Section 4.1), a deontic logic is proposed which explicates the idea that a formulaφis obligatory if and only if it is (semantically speaking) the weakest permission.
Van De Putte, Frederik
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Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
wiley   +1 more source

Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
wiley   +1 more source

Tolerating Inconsistencies: A Study of Logic of Moral Conflicts

Bulletin of the Section of Logic, 2022
Moral conflicts are the situations which emerge as a response to deal with conflicting obligations or duties. An interesting case arises when an agent thinks that two obligations A and B are equally important, but yet fails to choose one obligation over ...
Meha Mishra, A.V. Ravishankar Sarma
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Curious Legal Conditionals [PDF]

, 2011
The paper examines the use of the modal verb SHALL in the if clauses of conditionals found in legal English. The study traces the history of such usages and compares them to two uses of WILL attested in the same grammatical environment: a temporal use ...
Berezowski, Leszek
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Using Affirmative Action as a Tiebreaker

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue in favor of affirmative action. There are two central points to our argument. First, if two or more candidates for a position are matched in competence, then one ought to prefer a candidate from a disadvantaged, disenfranchised, or minority background rather than defer to the outcome of a lottery.
Shalom Chalson, James Bernard Willoughby
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Semantic Development of Modal Markers: The Role of Context

Clotho, 2019
The article tackles the problem of studying diachronic semantic changes of modal markers in Latin. It proposes to do so by using context as a proxy for tracing the development of otherwise unchanging forms.
Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek
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From evaluative to deontic predication: Evidence for the grammaticalization path from clausal complementation strategies

Kalbotyra
A shift from evaluation (‘it is good, fitting’, etc.) to deontic modality is well known from the literature on grammaticalization. This article looks at it from the viewpoint of complementation.
Axel Holvoet
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Defeasibility applied to Forrester’s paradox

South African Computer Journal, 2020
Deontic logic is a logic often used to formalise scenarios in the legal domain. Within the legal domain there are many exceptions and conflicting obligations. This motivates the enrichment of deontic logic with not only the notion of defeasibility, which
Julian Chingoma, Thomas Meyer
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