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COMPLIANCE AND COMMAND I—CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2018

KIT FINE
KIT FINE*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, New York University
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*DEPARTMENT OF PHILSOPHY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY NEW YORK, NY 10003, USA E-mail: kf14@nyu.edu
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Abstract

I develop a semantics for imperatives within the truthmaker framework by taking the meaning of an imperative to be given by the actions that are in compliance with or in contravention to the imperative.

Keywords

03B45possible worlds semanticstruthmaker semanticsimperative logicRoss’s paradoxentailmentpartial contentfree choice
Type
Research Article
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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 609 - 633
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2018 

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