| This content-independence of authoritative reasons entails their presumptive obligatoriness. |
| Rather than adopting this understanding of force, I have instead characterized the notion in terms of simple normativity or obligatoriness. |
| Another special property of AMC expressions, which makes them similar to the transitive different-subject converb expressions, is the obligatoriness of the subject genitive. |
| The main reason for the different behavior of Zay and Amharic seems due to different degrees of obligatoriness of the focus elements. |
| But how does this help us understand what it is that is obligatory — the owner of the obligatoriness, as it were? |
| We can, however, retain the insight that morality requires the performance of individual duties, provided we are clear that their obligatoriness arises from the nature of each duty rather than from some formal principle. |
