Exploiting the normative aspect of preference: A deontic logic without actions

Dialogue games that agents play within a society

“…Logicians have defined two main approaches to handle this problem. The first follows a practical reasoning approach which defines two basic models on obligations: a conflict-tolerant model [9] and prima-facie obligations [65]. The alternative is to follow a more mainstream formal approach similar to preference-based dyadic obligations approach suggested by [76].…”

“…Here, we only specify the usage and informal meaning for each of the predicates in our communication language. Due to space restrictions, the detailed formal semantics of the language are presented as a separate technical report[36] 9. Please note that even though the two locutions L1 and L2 have a similar syntax, they have different usage, pre-conditions, and effects.…”