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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
wiley   +1 more source

When Is Social Value Proportionate to Research Risks?

Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 707-716, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethical human subjects research must have an acceptable risk‐benefit ratio, which requires that the net risks participants face be proportionate to the research's social value. Yet existing scholarship does not explain what makes risks proportionate to social value.
Robert Steel
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Literacy: Embracing Illiteracies as Strategic Resistance in Citizenship Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconsiders the role of citizenship illiteracies in citizenship education, particularly in challenging contexts where direct confrontation is untenable. Traditionally, citizenship education often equates citizenship literacies with positive civic engagement, overlooking the potential value of illiteracies as forms of resistance ...
Jason Cong Lin
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Where authority, speech acts and modality meet: A pragmatic analysis of the trial record of King Charles I

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This paper investigates how speakers perform speech acts coordinating with modality in the flux of power in Early Modern courtroom interactions along the lines of historical pragmatics. The text used for analysis is the trial record of King Charles I in
Minako Nakayasu, Michi Shiina
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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Locke(d) in a Dilemma: The Problem of Territorial Authority

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 157-168, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT In Lockean social contract theory, the state exercises its authority over territory through property rights. The state has territorial authority over the property it and its citizens claim. This authority is legitimate when the state has the consent of the governed and effectively governs. In this paper, I argue that there is an irreconcilable
Samantha L. Fritz
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Commanding and Defining. On Eugenio Bulygin’s Theory of Legal Power-Conferring Rules

Crítica, 2017
This paper aims to explore two objections raised against Bulygin’s second approach to the definition of the nature of legal power-conferring rules. According to the first objection, such an account is vague about what is defined by legal power-conferring
Gonzalo Villa Rosas
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

Alternation of must, have to, and need to in English as a lingua franca

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 532-553, September 2026.
Abstract This study explores the grammatical variability of modal auxiliary verbs in English as a lingua franca. Focusing on the ongoing change must, have to, and need to, this research utilizes two spoken corpora: the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) and the Asian Corpus of English (ACE).
Chunyuan Nie, Lea Meriläinen, Mikko Laitinen   +2 more
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Mitigating acceptance and resistance in the fatwas on the ruling of learning English

Psychology of Language and Communication
The current study investigated fatwa discourse to reveal the attitudes and rulings of scholars towards English. In doing so, English and Arabic fatwas were analyzed employing modality.
Alharbi Ahlam, Bahammam Lubna, Almansour Tahani   +2 more
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