Essays about: "deontic"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 essays containing the word deontic.

  1. 6. The Possibility of Norm-Violation in Deontic Logics for Action Types : An Analysis of Bentzen's Action Type Deontic Logic and a New Semantics

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för kulturvetenskaper, KVA

    Author : Karl Nygren; [2016]
    Keywords : Action Type Deontic Logic; action types; action tokens; deontic logic; free choice; norm-violation; semantic tableau;

    Abstract : In a recent paper, Bentzen proposes a semantically characterised logic called Action Type Deontic Logic, where normative concepts are applied to action expressions, rather than propositional statements. The logic offers solutions to many of the paradoxes of deontic logic. READ MORE

  3. 7. Translating Modality : Disentangling the semantics of the modal auxiliaries in an investment fund prospectus and its translation from English to Swedish

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anna-Karin Rehn; [2016]
    Keywords : Modality; modal auxiliaries; modal verbs; financial text; translation; English; Swedish;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the use of modal auxiliaries in an investment fund prospectus and how they are translated into Swedish. The semantics of modal auxiliaries is a rather fuzzy area. One modal verb such as may or will can have several different meanings, depending on the textual and situational context. READ MORE

  4. 8. We have to trust them, but they must also know... : A corpus-based investigation of the core modal must and the emerging modals have to and have got to in newspapers and social media by Swedes

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Teresa Rilling; [2015]
    Keywords : colloquialization; core modal; corpora; emerging modal; English as a foreign language; grammaticalization; have got to; have to; modal auxiliaries; must;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine to what extent Swedish writers, who write in English, use the modals must, have to and have got to. The hypothesis being tested argues that the core modal must is not being challenged by the emerging modals have to and have got to in this non-native variety of English. READ MORE

  5. 9. A Comprehensive Buck-Passing Account of Value

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Marcus Dageryd; [2015]
    Keywords : Buck-passing; Scanlon; Gregory; Brännmark; value; reasons; properties; reduction; evaluative; deontic; intrinsic value; extrinsic value; final value; instrumental value; predicative value; attributive value; agent-relative; agent-neutral; personal value; impersonal value; goodness simpliciter;

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  6. 10. Electronic Contracting for Inter-Enterprise Collaboration

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Avdelningen för för interaktion och systemdesign

    Author : Maria Perez; [2008]
    Keywords : Contract; Virtual Enterprise; Ontology;

    Abstract : A Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a temporal alliance between two or more Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) geographically dispersed, which collaborate together in order to reach new business opportunities that would be unreachable in other ways. It is a business collaboration paradigm that aims at responding to the uncertainty and instability of the current global economy. READ MORE