Relevant deontic logic

DOI10.1007/BF00248639MaRDI QIDQ1187983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Werner Stelzner

Publication date 3 August 1992

Published in Journal of Philosophical Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00248639

zbMATH Keywords

conditions of relevance for conditionalsdeontic logicdeontic paradoxesfirst-degree positive relevant entailmentobligationRoss paradox

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Substructural logics (including relevance, entailment, linear logic, Lambek calculus, BCK and BCI logics) (03B47) Other nonclassical logic (03B60)

Review text

Novel conditions of relevance are defined for conditionals in order to weed out some of the deontic paradoxes, such as Ross's paradox. Semantically, first-degree positive relevant entailment is defined in terms of fulfilment conditions, which are sets of sets of literals (atomic sentences or their negations). The construction has much in common with \textit{B. C. van Fraassen's} treatment of facts and truthmaker sets [J. Philos. 66, 477-487 (1969)]. The resulting logic of positive relevant entailment resembles \textit{W. T. Parry's} system of analytic implication [Erg. Math. Kolloqu. 4, 5-6 (1933; JFM 59.0862.08)], with interesting divergences. The author varies his semantic definition and the fulfilment conditions to rule out negative relevance, yielding two further first-degree entailment relations. Three corresponding types of obligation are then defined as entailment by a set of basic norms. Ross's paradox is blocked, but free choice of alternatives for fulfilling norms is upheld.

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