Abstract
In this paper I propose a simple modification of standard deontic logic that will enable the system to accommodate deontic dilemmas without inconsistency and without deontic explosion, while at the same time preserving the range of genuinely valid inferences. The proposal applies both to monadic deontic logic and to a dyadic logic of conditional obligation. In the Appendix these systems are proved to be sound and complete with respect to an appropriate semantics and also to be decidable.
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Goble, L. (2004). A Proposal for Dealing with Deontic Dilemmas. In: Lomuscio, A., Nute, D. (eds) Deontic Logic in Computer Science. DEON 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3065. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25927-5_7
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