Non‐Propositional Regulation ☆

When thinking about how human behaviour is regulated, one generally imagines a regulation consisting of norms linguistically expressed in sentences: that is, “sentential deontic regulation”. However, this notion of regulation is reductive because there are (non‐deontic and) non‐sentential forms of regulation. In this article, we do not restrict our investigation to (non‐deontic and) non‐sentential forms of regulation; we examine whether there are forms of (non‐deontic) regulation that are even not propositional. In this regard, we advance the hypothesis that there are indeed cases of “non‐propositional regulation”: that is, regulation that does not need propositions and propositional contents.