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Deontic modals and hyperintensionality
Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2019 Abstract In this paper I argue that deontic modals are hyperintensional, i.e. logically equivalent contents cannot be substituted in their scope. I give two arguments, one deductive and the other abductive. First, I show that the contrary thesis (that deontic modals are not hyperintensional) leads to falsity; second, I argue that a ...
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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Translating Deontic Modality: Semantic and Formal Convergences and Discrepancies
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsModality is a challenging phenomenon for translators since languages have modality systems that differ in terms of the degree of grammaticalization. The article aims to analyze and summarize strategies used in translating deontic modal operators from ...
Olga A. Boginskaya
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016 The aim of this article is to highlight an issue of expressing deontic modality in Finnish and Polish in a legal context in terms of deontic strength.
Joanna RYDZEWSKA-SIEMIĄTKOWSKA
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
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Il congiuntivo nell’italiano scritto e parlato [PDF]
Echo des Etudes Romanes, 2015 The article deals with the usage of the subjunctive in contemporary Italian against the background of the grammatical rules that determine its usage in standard Italian.
Klímová Eva
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Estudios de Traducción, 2020 It is argued that legal language should be formal, precise and clear to avoid ambiguity and/or misunderstanding. As rights and duties are communicated through modals, clarity and precision in drafting and translating them is crucial. Otherwise, there is
Hanem El-Farahaty, Abdelhamid Elewa
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There Are No Abilities to Succeed
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
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Journal of Logic and Computation, 2018 Cariani (Ought and resolution semantics) has proposed a semantics for ought that combines two features: (i) it invalidates Inheritance, i.e. the inference from ought to ought whenever is logically weaker than , and it does so in a principled manner; (ii) it allows for coarseness, which means that ought can be true even if there are specific ways of ...
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Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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