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Most of the recent work in deontic logic has concentrated on problems concerning “conditional obligation”. I’ve felt for a long time that this has been a mistake. A proper theory of conditional obligation, like one of “conditional quantification”, will be the product of two separate components: a theory of the conditional, and a theory of obligation.
This paper was first presented at the Temple University Conference on Deviant Semantics, December, 1970. (The theory is deviant, I suppose, but I hope not perverted.) An earlier draft was written in January, 1971, and distributed privately. Major revisions were made in 1974, and minor ones in 1980. This work was supported under NSF Grant GS-2517.
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Thomason, R.H. (1981). Deontic Logic as Founded on Tense Logic. In: Hilpinen, R. (eds) New Studies in Deontic Logic. Synthese Library, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8484-4_7
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