It is argued that Ross's Paradox in deontic logic is a problem which should be taken seriously, and which can be given a solution which also solves some other wellknown paradoxes and the traditional problems with conditional obligation.
CYCLIC PREFERENCES or evaluations usually are supposed to be defective in some sense, inconsistent or at least irrational. This is the received view in most works in ethics, decision theory and other fields where the possibility is seriously considered. From time to time, however, the received view is questioned, Cases are described where we find apparently rational cyclic preferences or apparently sound arguments which take us from seemingly innocent assumptions to cyclic evaluations.Here I shall consider two different kinds of such counterexamples and then present a direct argument against cyclic evaluations.
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