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The purpose of this article is to investigate the structure and to discuss the applications of deontic logics of von Wright’s type as presented in [15] and [19]. The ‘paradoxes’ which arise in these logics seem to indicate that the axioms reflect only some special senses of the words ‘obligation’ and ‘permission’. I believe that the questions of what these special senses are can be clarified by exhibiting a simple picture of the formal structure of these logics.
Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher from Nous 3 (1969) 373–398
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Hansson, B. (1970). An Analysis of Some Deontic Logics. In: Hilpinen, R. (eds) Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings. Synthese Library, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3146-2_5
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