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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 158-167, September 2026.ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
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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
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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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 +2 more
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Journal of Applied Logic, 2005 By a deontic dilemma the author means a situation in which both `\(A\) is obligatory' and `not-\(A\) is obligatory' are accepted without reservation nor any form of prioritization or other convention to resolve the conflict in favour of one or the other.
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Deontic Paradoxes and Tableau System for Kalinowski’s Deontic Logic K1
Bulletin of the Section of Logic, 2017 In 1953, Jerzy Kalinowski published his paper on the logic of normative sentences. The paper is recognized as one of the first publications on the formal system of deontic logic. The aim of this paper is to present a tableau system for Kalinowski’s deontic logic and to discuss some of the topics related to the paradoxes of deontic logic.
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An Apparent Antilogy in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Deontics
, 2007 In Wittgenstein sono presenti due tesi solo apparentemente antitetiche. Prima tesi: il comando è descrizione del proprio compimento.
CONTE, AMEDEO GIOVANNI
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, 2013 This book concerns the relationship between truth and value in philosophy of law, ethics, deontics. It presents fourteen new essays by eminent scholars (among which John Searle, Amedeo G. Conte, Roberta De Monticelli, Matjaz Potrc).
Stefano Colloca, Colloca, Stefano
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