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Deontic Modals are Hyperintensional

2019
I argue that deontic modals are hyperintensional, that is, logical equivalent contents cannot be substituted in their scope. I give two arguments, one is deductive and the other abductive. First, I simply prove that the contrary thesis leads to falsity; second, I claim that a hyperintensional theory of deontic modals fares better than its rivals in ...
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For a Dynamic Semantics of Necessity Deontic Modals

2014
Traditional approaches in deontic logic have focused on the so-called reportative reading of obligation sentences, by providing truth-functional semantics based on a primitive ideality order between possible worlds. Those approaches, however, do not take into account that, in natural language, obligation sentences primarly carry a prescriptive effect ...
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Truthmaker Semantics for Deontic Modals

2019
In this chapter I briefly give a philosophical introduction to truthmaker semantics and I present Fine’s logic and semantics for imperatives, I discuss two philosophical difficulties for Fine’s account (but really, for every truthmaker semantics similar to his) and propose some technical solutions.
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Counterfactual-Style Revisions in the Semantics of Deontic Modals

Journal of Semantics, 2010
The article argues for a parallelism between the interpretation of deontic modals and the interpretation of counterfactuals. The main claim is that dependencies between facts play a role in the resolution of both types of modality: in both cases, facts 'stand and fall' together.
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On the free choice potential of epistemic and deontic modals

2013
A number of constructions in various languages display a different behavior in the scope of epistemic and deontic modals. For example, the German indefinite determiner irgendein gives rise to different inferences under the two kinds of modals (Aloni and Port 2010; Kratzer and Shimoyama 2002). Furthermore, while the Romanian determiner vreun is licensed
Aloni, M., Franke, M.
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Deontic Modals: Why Abandon the Default Approach

Erkenntnis, 2017
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Deontic Modal Expressions

Abstract Over the past fifteen years, linguists and philosophers of language have re-examined the canonical, Kratzerian semantics for modal expressions, with special attention paid to their epistemic and deontic uses. This chapter is an overview of the literature on deontic modal expressions.
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Factoring Disjunction Out of Deontic Modal Puzzles

2014
Ross’s puzzle (Ross, 1941) and the paradox of Free Choice Permission (Kamp, 1973), puzzles involving disjunction under deontic operators, have received wide discussion in recent work in natural language semantics. First, I contrast two opposed modal views—call them the “box-diamond” theory and EU theory—that form two poles of the contemporary debate ...
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Disjunction Under Deontic Modals: Experimental Data

2019
The meaning components of may/or and must/or sentences have been discussed intensively by a number of theoretical accounts. The debates are concerned with whether free choice inferences are part of logical meaning or scalar implicatures, and additionally, whether exhaustive inferences and exclusive or inferences are derived for may/or versus must/or ...
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A BERT-based deontic logic learner

Information Processing and Management, 2023
Jingyun Sun
exaly