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While the relevance closure of a proposition, X, is the set of all w such that R+⊆X, we shall define the deontic closure of X as the set of all w such that D(w⊆X. (D(w)—{v∊W:wDv}.) Thus, the deontic closure of X is the proposition true in exactly those worlds in which X is obligatory. In other words, the deontic closure of X is nothing other than the proposition that X is obligatory.
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Rabinowicz, W. (1979). Universality and Universalizability. In: Universalizability. Synthese Library, vol 141. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9484-3_11
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