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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By issuing requests of one another, we wield what is, on reflection, a remarkable power: to create reasons at will. But how can requesters give us reasons to do what they want, even when they stand in no relation of authority over us? And what would be lost if we saw requests as communicating the existence of pre‐existing reasons, rather than ...
Milan Mossé
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Evidence Sensitivity in Weak Necessity Deontic Modals [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Comparative Legilinguistics, 2016 The aim of this article is to highlight an issue of expressing deontic modality in Finnish and Polish in a legal context in terms of deontic strength.
Joanna RYDZEWSKA-SIEMIĄTKOWSKA
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is widely assumed that all games essentially have rules. This paper challenges this apparent truism. We argue that rules are merely one means for generating obstacles: features that make success more difficult. We propose that obstacles, not rules, are essential to games. This shift comes with several theoretical benefits.
Alexandre Declos, Olivier Massin
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The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 The focus of the paper is on the frequency, distribution patterns and semantic profile of the necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in old and contemporary Lithuanian texts.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė +1 more
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Deontic Modals and Context in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter
آداب الكوفة, 2022 The present study aims at investigating the effect of context on the use of deontic modals within the first part of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, that is 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone'.
احمد الكلابي +1 more
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There Are No Abilities to Succeed
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is an essential connection between the concept of an ability and various forms of practical and cognitive success. In particular, it is in virtue of exercising their abilities that agents’ general practical and cognitive endeavors, their doings and believings, become achievements—intentional actions or instances of knowledge.
David Heering
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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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Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2023 This paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments.
Jakob Lenardič, Kristina Pahor de Maiti
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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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