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Various paradoxes in deontic logic have led to the introduction of concepts of conditional obligation. The aim of this paper is to develop a semantic theory of conditional obligation, a complete logical system pertaining thereto, and a translation into modal logic analogous to that provided by Anderson for normal deontic logics.
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Van Fraassen, B.C. (1973). The Logic of Conditional Obligation. In: Bunge, M. (eds) Exact Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 50. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2516-4_10
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