The Paradoxes of Deontic Logic: Alive and Kicking

Theoria 72 (3):221-232 (2006)
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In a recent paper, Sven Danielsson argued that the ‘original paradoxes' of deontic logic, in particular Ross's paradox and Prior's paradox of derived obligation, can be solved by restricting the modal inheritance rule. I argue that this does not solve the paradoxes.

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10.1111/j.1755-2567.2006.tb00958.x

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