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Suggestions for Deontic Logicians
… purpose of this paper is to make a suggestion to deontic logic: Respect Hume\'s Law, the answer to the is-ought problem that says that all ought-talk is completely cut off from is-talk. Most deontic logicians have sought another solution: Namely, the solution that says that we can bridge the …
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Pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning
… thesis is concerned with pragmatic factors of deontic reasoning, namely scale of violation, aggravating and mitigating circumstances and power of source. Nine experiments are reported investigating deontic reasoning and judgement revision. Experiment 1 established scale of violation as a …
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Enriching deontic logic with typicality
… been used for reasoning tasks in many domains. Deontic logic is a logic which is often used to formalise legal scenarios with its built-in notions of obligation, permission and prohibition. Within the legal domain, it is important to recognise that there are many exceptions and conflicting …
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The role of probability in indicative and deontic conditionals
… research, played a role in mediating deontic reasoning. This research added to a growing feeling of links between decision-making and reasoning. In order to further these links an additional construct from decision-making research was applied to reasoning: probability. Initial …
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Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules
Die Wasonsche Informationswahlaufgabe (WST) ließ fundamentale Zweifel an der Rationalität menschlichen Hypothesentestens aufkommen und inspirierte die Entwicklung sowohl domänenspezifischer als auch domänenübergreifender Theorien des Denkens. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Synthesevorschlag entwickelt, …
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Semantic deontic modeling and text classification for supporting automated environmental compliance checking in construction
… developments in the fields of deontology, deontic logic, and natural language processing (NLP) to the problem of compliance checking in construction. Deontology is a theory of rights and obligations; and deontic logic is a branch of modal logic that deals with obligations, permissions, etc. …
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Law’s Technicality and Rich Evaluative Significances: Why (English) Law Is Not a Deontic System
… assumption that law is essentially a system of deontic (i.e. obligating/permitting) norms, plus deontic norm-modification norms. That is, it is thought that if one scrapes away the surface technicality of legal discourse, and setting aside also the emotional nuances of the sentiments people …
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¿Opiniones, normas o pura necesidad?: La modalidad deóntica y la modalidad dinámica a través de deber y tener que
This study focuses on the notions of deontic and dynamic modality in Spanish and how they are expressed through the modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’. The analysis is based on a corpus of political debates from the European Parliament, conducted 2010‒2011 by Spanish MEPs. In total, …
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Subjective modality
… 2, 'Putting "Ought"s Together', argues that deontic but not epistemic 'ought's appear to obey the inference pattern Agglomeration. It gives a new semantics for 'ought', where it is an existential quantifier over best propositions, and shows how this semantics together with pragmatic features …
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Acho que nunca antes na história deste país... modalização epistêmica deôntica e modalização epistêmica em cartas de leitores do período eleitoral para presidência da república
… we analyze and interpret the expression of deontic modality and epistemic modality in readers' letters and the different argumentative orientations that make this textual genre possible. We verify also interfaces with the study of the referenciation and polyphony, because modalizing is also …
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Conversing Opportunities into Existence: An Examination of Discourse Structures used within the Opportunity Development of Nascent Entrepreneurship
… actualities, engagement hypotheticals, and deontic declarations contribute to the nonlinear opportunity emergence process. These discourse structures derived from speech acts are attended to, adopted, and implemented as they align with assessment filters of credibility, feasibility, …
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Modality and evidentiality in political discourse : a cognitive-functional account
… for studying three types of modality (epistemic, deontic and volitional modality) in political discourse from a cognitive-functional perspective. The framework illustrates the functions of modality in political discourse modelled in dimensions of Space, Time and Evidentiality, which interact …
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How Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Attributes Affect Consumer Purchase Intention
… provide strong evidence for the effectiveness of deontic justice, and also illustrate that the degree of justice restoration potential has a significant impact on preference for products with social attributes. Thus, this study shows that such factors can affect consumer purchase intention with …
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"""I'm Too Good To Be Bad"": The Moderating Role of Honesty-Humility In Aggressive and Prosocial Reactions to First and Third Party Unfairness"
In considering the deontic perspective of justice, research has called for the study of individual difference variables that explain differential reactions to unfair treatment. This is specifically due to the emerging literature on moral self-regulation as a determinant of workplace behaviors for …
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Speech act theory, discourse structure and indirect speech
… cognitive states are represented using modal and deontic operators on the proposition within epistemic logic. This idea of the description of a speech act in terms of cognitive states is developed in Chapter Four. In Chapter Four, speech acts are related using a communicated cognitive state to …
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Frontiers of Conditional Logic
… thereof.</p> <p>My dissertation examines deontic and connexive conditional logic as well as the underappreciated history of connexive notions in the analysis of conditional obligation. The possibility of interpreting deontic modal logics in such systems (via embedding results) serves as an …
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Aspects of modality
… come in different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each modal has a single lexical entry, where the difference in flavor comes from contextually-provided accessibility relations (cf. Lewis 1973, Kratzer 1981). Equally …
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Assessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements
… discuss a number of moral evaluations including deontic evaluations of human action, which concern assessments of actions being right, wrong, or obligatory; agent evaluations, which include assessments of how we should treat people; these include assessments of moral responsibility and just …
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The Influence of Social Comparisons of Interactional Justice on Emotional Labor: An Extension of Fairness, Affective Events, and Emotional Regulation Theories
… fairly. These findings are consistent with the deontic approach to justice (Folger, 1998, 2001; Cropanzano, Goldman, & Folger, 2003) that suggests that individuals' concern for justice stems in part from non-instrumental motives. Such evidence for coworker directed justice effects on EL also …
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A study of the semantic characteristics of the modal auxiliaries may and might in Scots
… are categorised in three main modal senses (deontic, root possibility and epistemic). Next, examples of MAY/MIGHT, which are derived from the corpora are analysed and three modal senses of MAY/MIGHT, which are defined in the previous chapter are identified the examples. In chapter3, the …
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