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Update Semantics for Imperatives with Priorities

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Logic, Rationality, and Interaction (LORI 2011)

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Imperatives occur ubiquitously in our social communications. In real life we often get conflicting orders issued by different speakers whose authorities are ranked. We propose a new update semantics to interpret the meaning of imperatives with priorities and illustrate what changes they bring about in the addressee’s cognitive state. The general properties of the semantics, as well as its core philosophical ideas are discussed extensively in this paper.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Fengkui Ju

  2. Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Fenrong Liu

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  1. University of Sevilla, Camilo José Cela s/n, 41018, Sevilla, Spain

    Hans van Ditmarsch

  2. Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 04, France

    Jérôme Lang

  3. Institute of Logic and Cognition, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China

    Shier Ju

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Ju, F., Liu, F. (2011). Update Semantics for Imperatives with Priorities. In: van Ditmarsch, H., Lang, J., Ju, S. (eds) Logic, Rationality, and Interaction. LORI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6953. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24130-7_9

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