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Deontic Logic

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Handbook of Philosophical Logic

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An ancient paradox is about the famous Greek law teacher Protagoras and goes like this: Protagoras and Euathlus agree that the former is to instruct the latter in rhetoric and is to receive a certain fee which is to be paid if and only if Euathlus wins his first court-case (in some versions: as soon as he has won his first case). Well, Euathlus completed his course but did not take any law cases. Some time elapsed and Protagoras sued his student for the sum. The following arguments were presented to the judge in court.

Research carried out under the auspices of the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation project RJ 79/23 on criminal intent and negligence.

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Åqvist, L. (1984). Deontic Logic. In: Gabbay, D., Guenthner, F. (eds) Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 165. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6259-0_11

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