Reasoning with Rules and Rights: Term-Modal Deontic Logic

Frijters, Stef; Meheus, Joke; Putte, Frederik Van De

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“…There has been work within deontic logic to enrich the deontic operator with an index to signify the correlative party, or “counterparty”, in a wholly formal representation, as Sven Ove Hansson (2001: 221 n19) has noted. More recently, a sophisticated formal representation of bearers and counterparties of deontic operators has been developed in Frijters (2021) and Frijters et al (2022) to assist an account of reasoning from general to party‐specific obligations. However, these approaches treat counterparties as an (indexed) aspect of a deontic operator, affecting the bearer's (not the counterparty's) normative position.…”

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Overcoming von Wright's anxiety

Halpin

2024

Theoria

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This article examines the anxiety expressed by von Wright over the status of the deontic permission, P, as an independent normative category, given the interdefinability between P and O at the foundation of deontic logic. Two concerns are noted: the reducibility of P to O, and the inadequacy of P to convey a full permission in a social setting. Drawing on resources from the Hohfeldian analytical framework, the relational and aggregate features of permission are explored, and an aggregate conception of permission, P, is recognized. With the assistance of insights from Demey and Smessaert on duals, Hansson on formalization, and Soames on interdefinability, it is concluded that the interdefinability thesis can be defended without threatening the independent status of P. Additional grounds for reaching this conclusion are provided from a detailed analysis of the relationship between P and P. Some implications of the more expansive notion of permission, P, are considered with regard to the resources of deontic logic and their application.

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Section: Drawing On the Hohfeldian Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Overcoming von Wright's anxiety

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2024

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“…Last but not least, bearer can also be unspecified as well (e.g. (1.6); see McNamara, 2004;Frijters, 2021;Frijters et al, 2021).…”

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“Must” people reason logically with “permission” in daily situations? An explorative experimental investigation in human reasoning of normative concepts

Wong

2024

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Philosophers have long been arguing the precise semantics of different deontic terms within normative statements. However, little research has been done on the human reasoning side of understanding such terms. In this paper, we have proposed a normative scheme with bitstring semantics that is expressive enough to cover the basic normative concepts in most mainstream schemes proposed in deontic logic research. Even though further confirmation is needed, our explorative experiments on human deontic reasoning have shown results that are consistent with our proposed scheme.

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Reasoning with Rules and Rights: Term-Modal Deontic Logic

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Overcoming von Wright's anxiety

Overcoming von Wright's anxiety

“Must” people reason logically with “permission” in daily situations? An explorative experimental investigation in human reasoning of normative concepts

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