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Deontic logic aims at formally modeling the reasoning with norm-related modalities. Von Wright recognized that the obligation modality bears a resemblance to modal necessity and the permission modality to modal possibility, which resulted in his Standard Deontic Logic [9]. SDL is the modal logic KD. Since its conception, SDL has drawn a lot of criticism: e.g., Chisholm [2] argued that it was unfit to represent certain types of conditional obligation, and Makinson [5] and van der Torre [6] emphasized that deontic logic is much more naturally studied as a process of iterative detachment relative to explicitly represented normative systems; a view that does not fit well with the modal logic modeling proposed by Von Wright.
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Broersen, J. (2011). Probabilistic Action and Deontic Logic. In: Leite, J., Torroni, P., Ågotnes, T., Boella, G., van der Torre, L. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. CLIMA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6814. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22359-4_20
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