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What does deontic mean?

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  1. (linguistics) Pertaining to necessity, duty or obligation, or expressions conveying this.
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A basic implementation of the proposed approach has been prototyped in a tool that supports automated verbalization of both alethic and deontic rules.
In Section 3.1, we recalled the syntax of epistemic and deontic modals, as well as the syntax of modals when they were used lexically.
However, the construction of this paradox of deontology rests firmly upon ideas that Nozick has rejected on his way to asserting deontic side constraints.
English auxiliaries will, must, should, and so on were used for deontic modality before their use was extended to also express epistemic modality.
Nute 1997 is dedicated to defeasibility in deontic logic and is the best single source on the topic, with articles by many of the key players, including Nute himself.
It follows that the account in terms of status functions is not a rival of the account in terms of deontic power.

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