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The purpose of the paper is to present a logical framework that allow to formalize a kind of prima facie duties, defeasible conditional duties, indefeasible conditional duties and actual (indefeasible) duties, as well as to show their logical interconnections.
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Alchourrón, C.E. Detachment and defeasibility in deontic logic. Stud Logica 57, 5–18 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370667
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