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Several systems of monadic deontic logic are defined in terms of systems of alethic modal logic with a propositional constant. When the universal propositional quantifier is added to these systems, the propositional constant becomes definable in terms of the deontic operator. As a result, the meaning of this constant becomes clearer and it becomes easy to axiomatize the deontic fragments of the alethic modal systems.
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Lokhorst, GJ.C. (2006). Propositional Quantifiers in Deontic Logic. In: Goble, L., Meyer, JJ.C. (eds) Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems. DEON 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4048. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11786849_17
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