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Deontic Logic and its Philosophical Morals

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Models for Modalities

Part of the book series: Synthese Library ((SYLI,volume 23))

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Anyone who practices or preaches philosophical analysis might do well to study some deontic logic.1 That is anyway the thesis of this paper. I shall suggest that a semantical approach to deontic logic offers as clear-cut examples as any analyst is apt to find anywhere of several key operations of his métier.

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  1. Arthur N. Prior, Formal Logic, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1957; 2nd ed., 1962

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© 1969 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Hintikka, J. (1969). Deontic Logic and its Philosophical Morals. In: Models for Modalities. Synthese Library, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1711-4_9

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