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A Neutral Temporal Deontic STIT Logic [PDF]

, 2019
In this work we answer a long standing request for temporal embeddings of deontic STIT logics by introducing the multi-agent STIT logic TDS . The logic is based upon atemporal utilitarian STIT logic. Yet, the logic presented here will be neutral: instead
Lyon, Tim, van Berkel, Kees
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Deontic logic and adaptive algorithms: The relevance of explicit benefit in versions of the selection task

Filosofia Unisinos, 2013
Social contract theory argues that to properly execute thematic versions of the selection task one has to specify, in the rules of such versions, an explicit benefit that can only be achieved in exchange for meeting a requirement.
Miguel López Astorga
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Who is Right, Who is Wrong? Interpreting 14 Points of Wilson – A Case Study of Deontic Modals and their Meanings

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2021
The document titled “14 points of Wilson” was announced by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson in his speech addressed to the United States Congress on 8th January 1918.
Matulewska Aleksandra, Mikołajczyk Marek   +1 more
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Weak and Strong Necessity Modals: On Linguistic Means of Expressing "A Primitive Concept OUGHT" [PDF]

, 2022
This paper develops an account of the meaning of `ought', and the distinction between weak necessity modals (`ought', `should') and strong necessity modals (`must', `have to').
Silk, Alex
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Logical Analogies: Interpretations, Oppositions, and Probabilism

Philosophies, 2019
I present two logical systems to show the “analogy of proportionality„ common to several interpretations: modality (necessity and possibility), quantification, truth-functional relations, moral attitudes (deontic logic), states of knowledge ...
Walter Redmond
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Faith, Language, Logic: Anselm of Canterbury and his Project of Logic of Agency [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2023
The Philosophical Fragments (Lambeth Fragments) of St. Anselm of Canterbury are a kind of dictionary that explains the meaning of certain terms, such as: facere, velle, posse, necesse, debere, or agere.
Andrzej P. Stefańczyk
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The inheritance of dynamic and deontic integrity constraints or: Does the boss have more rights? [PDF]

, 1991
In [18,23], we presented a language for the specification of static, dynamic and deontic integrity constraints (IC's) for conceptual models (CM's). An important problem not discussed in that paper is how IC's are inherited in a taxonomic network of types.
Dignum, F.P.M., Meyer, J.-J.Ch., Weigand, H., Wieringa, R.J.   +3 more
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Fractional-Valued Modal Logic and Soft Bilateralism

Bulletin of the Section of Logic, 2023
In a recent paper, under the auspices of an unorthodox variety of bilateralism, we introduced a new kind of proof-theoretic semantics for the base modal logic \(\mathbf{K}\), whose values lie in the closed interval \([0,1]\) of rational numbers [14].
Mario Piazza, Gabriele Pulcini, Matteo Tesi   +2 more
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Deontic Logics as Axiomatic Extensions of First-Order Predicate Logic: An Approach Inspired by Wolniewicz’s Formal Ontology of Situations

Axioms, 2019
The aim of this article is to present a method of creating deontic logics as axiomatic theories built on first-order predicate logic with identity. In the article, these theories are constructed as theories of legal events or as theories of acts.
Andrzej Malec
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The walking debt – On the morals of ownership in debt and its alienability

Rivista di Estetica, 2023
The article provides a moral analysis of the commercial trade of financial claims against private debtors. Secondary debt markets process a type of object that differs from regular commodities.
Simon Derpmann
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