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Situationist deontic logic is a model of that fraction of normative discourse which refers to only one situation and one set of alternatives. As we can see from a whole series of well-known paradoxes, standard deontic logic (SDL) is seriously mistaken even at the situationist level. In this paper it is shown how a more realistic deontic logic can be based on the assumption that prescriptive predicates satisfy the property of contranegativity. A satisfactory account of situation-specific norms is a necessary prerequisite for a successful treatment of more complex normative structures.
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Hansson, S.O. Situationist Deontic Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic 26, 423–448 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004233913104
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004233913104