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Alethic modality is deontic

Mind & Language
According to one view of alethic modality, alethic modality is deontic modality with respect to thoughts or language. To say that something is necessary is to prescribe norms on how we must think or use language. This view has been argued to have many philosophical advantages over the traditional view that takes alethic modality to describe things in ...
Qiong Wu
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Deontic Modality Today: Introduction

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2014
[Extract] In the summer of 2013, we organized a workshop at the University of Southern California, dedicated to the topic of deontic modality, broadly construed. The articles in this issue represent contributions to that workshop.
Finlay, Stephen, Schroeder, Mark
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ITERATED DEONTIC MODALITIES

Mind, 1966
Abstract In this paper, a confusion between evaluative and prescriptive uses of “ought” is located, and the prescriptive use of deontic operators is then recommended.
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From deontic modality to conditionality

Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2022
AbstractWhile epistemic modality has been suggested to be a modal source of conditionality, deontic modality has been generally overlooked. Using data from Classical Chinese and the Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, this study demonstrates that the deontic modalbitends to invite inferences of conditionality in contexts where it is used ...
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Deontic modals

2018
Modality, as it is usually understood in contemporary philosophy, has to do with necessities and possibilities. Deontic modality is a kind of modality which has to do with what is necessary or possible according to various rules, such as the norms of morality, the principles of practical rationality or the laws of some country.
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Relativised deontic modalities in SDL

1998
A normative rule is aimed at actors, who are expected to follow the norms specified by the (relevant) authority. The addition of actors to DDL allows us to express who has the responsibility for performing an action. For instance, the applicability of the norm ‘it is obligatory to perform action β (O(β))’ depends on the individual for whom the norm is ...
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Acquisition of epistemic and deontic meaning of modals

Journal of Child Language, 1982
ABSTRACTModal auxiliaries have an epistemic and deontic sense and range in strength, e.g. must propositions are stronger than may propositions. Children (ages 3; 0–6; 6) heard two contradictory modal propositions of varying strength. In the epistemic condition, the propositions concerned the location of a peanut.
W, Hirst, J, Weil
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