Open AccessEpistemic and Deontic Should
Author(s) -
Cariani Fabrizio
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
thought: a journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.429
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 2161-2234
DOI - 10.1002/tht3.61
Subject(s) - deontic logic , premise , epistemology , semantics (computer science) , modal verb , probabilistic logic , linguistics , face (sociological concept) , philosophy , computer science , verb , programming language
Probabilistic theories of “should” and “ought” face a predicament. At first blush, it seems that such theories must provide different lexical entries for the epistemic and the deontic interpretations of these modals. I show that there is a new style of premise semantics that can avoid this consequence in an attractively conservative way.
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