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Understanding Prescriptive Texts: Rules and Logic as Elaborated by the Mīmāṃsā School
Journal of World Philosophies, 2017 The Mīmāṃsā school of Indian philosophy elaborated complex ways of interpreting the prescriptive portions of the Vedic sacred texts. The present article is the result of the collaboration of a group of scholars of logic, computer science, European ...
Elisa Freschi, +3 more
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CQD Revista Eletrônica Paulista de Matemática, 2020 The deontic logic is a particular case of modal logic that analyses relations among the concepts of obligation, permission and prohibition. We take the standard deontic logic KD, for which we introduce a new system of tableaux.
Romulo Albano de Freitas +1 more
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Sobre a lógica deôntica não-clássica
Crítica, 2018 Our starting point, in this basically expository paper, is the study of a classical system of deontic propositional logic, classical in the sense that it constitutes an extension of the classical propositional calculus.
Leila Z. Puga, Newton C.A. da Costa
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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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The Paradox of Duties to Oneself [PDF]
, 2020 Philosophers have long argued that duties to oneself are paradoxical, as they seem to entail an incoherent power to release oneself from obligations.
Muñoz, Daniel
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Deontic logic as a study of conditions of rationality in norm-related activities [PDF]
, 2016 The program put forward in von Wright's last works defines deontic logic as ``a study of conditions which must be satisfied in rational norm-giving activity'' and thus introduces the perspective of logical pragmatics.
Žarnić, Berislav
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The Good Samaritan and the Hygienic Cook: A Cautionary Tale About Linguistic Data [PDF]
, 2009 When developing formal theories of the meaning of language, it is appropriate to consider how apparent paradoxes and conundrums of language are best resolved. But if we base our analysis on a small sample of data then we may fail to take into account the
Fox, C
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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
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How generics obscure the logic of conditionals
Mind &Language, EarlyView.This paper discusses counter‐examples to modus ponens and modus tollens involving modals and quantificational adverbs, and presents new counter‐examples with generic conditionals. We argue that the counter‐examples are spurious, and are explained by the domain‐restricting effects of if‐clauses.
Daniel Lassiter +3 more
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Imperative change and obligation to do [PDF]
, 2003 The ambition of the paper is to provide a solution to the problem posed by Von Wright (1999): how is it possible that the two actions, one of producing P and the other of preventing P can have different deontic status, the former being obligatory and the
Žarnić, Berislav
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