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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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Advocacy and the function of folk psychology
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and ...
Henry Schiller
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KalbotyraA 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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Modality and Irony in Political Discourse
ACROSSThe central figures in political communication are the participants and the strategies of persuasion and manipulation used as tools that influence perceptions, and behaviours.
Valentina CIUMACENCO
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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Estudios de Traducción, 2020 This study investigates deontic modality, the grammatical category through which legal texts express mainly obligation and permission, in an English-Greek bilingual corpus composed of legislative texts related to European Union (EU) Competition Law ...
Stavros Kozobolis
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Redeeming Relative Value: Indexicality and Consequentializing Agent‐Centered Norms
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Robert Nozick doubted forms of consequentialism that employ so‐called “agent‐relative value” because he found them “gimmicky.” This doubt has been sharpened by Don Regan, Mark Schroeder, and others into the objection that agent‐relative value lacks the practical importance we associate with good simpliciter.
Nathan Robert Howard
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Permissions in Deontic Event-Calculus [PDF]
, 2015 Permissions are special case of deontic effects and play important role compliance. Essentially they are used to determine the obligations or prohibitions to contrary.
Hashmi, Mustafa, Governatori, Guido
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Quantifiers for a Modal Future
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
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Detecting Deontic Conflicts in Dynamic Settings [PDF]
, 2014 Regulations, through the use of obligations and permissions, are widely used in modern society to define acceptable behaviours. Thus it is indeed important that these regulations do not conflict with each other and contain contradicting obligations.
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