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The Difference Between Modal Verbs in Deontic and Epistemic Modality
Humaniora, 2012 Modality is always interesting to discuss. Understanding it is crucial for both language teachers and learners. This essay discusses the concept of modality, its types and uses.
Menik Winiharti
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Must Can: Double‐Modal Constructions in Hong Kong English
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous studies have focused on double‐modal constructions (DMs) in Englishes in the Inner Circle at the expense of the Outer Circle. Using data collected from internet forums and corpora, this study aims to narrow the research gap by examining DMs in Hong Kong English (HKE), an English variety in the Outer Circle.
Pun Ho Lui
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On Necessity in Cypriot Turkish
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015 This paper focuses on the expression of necessity as a modal notion in Cypriot Turkish. A qualitative analysis of data gathered from various sources reveals that periphrastic or lexical expressions such as mecbur‘obliged,’ lazım ‘necessary,’ illa ...
Mine Güven
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Engineering Reports, Volume 8, Issue 10, October 2026.SARE‐IR transforms complex Chinese water‐governance regulations into structured atomic rules by combining structure‐aware segmentation, schema‐constrained extraction, inheritance reconstruction, and consistency normalization, improving rule boundary recovery and slot alignment for regulatory knowledge services.
Yuanbin Wang +7 more
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, 2023 Deontic stance refers to a participant’s publicly displayed and claimed strength of deontic rights relative to their co-participant(s) in a certain domain of action (Stevanovic 2018)
Melisa Stevanovic
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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 362-374, October 2026.ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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An ASP Implementation of Defeasible Deontic Logic
We present a novel implementation of Defeasible Deontic Logic as an Answer Set Programming meta-program, and we evaluate the performance of the implementation against a recent set of ...
Guido Governatori
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South African Journal of Education, 2019 The aim of the study was to determine the relationsip between deontic justice attitudes among prospective teachers and their tendencies towards academic dishonesty. Participants in the study were 403 university students attending different departments of
Sait Akbaşlı +2 more
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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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Crítica (México D F En línea), 2017 This article analyzes the thesis of ethical relativism, as defended by Alchourrón and Bulygin (1983). These authors offer, on the one hand, a suggestive conception according to which the question “what are our obligations?” is equivalent to thinking about what is to be done; on the other hand, they defend a relativist conception of ethics. They present
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