Michigan Academician, January 1st, 2008
The Possibility of Many Valued Logic. Michelle M. Monagin, Oakland University, Department of Philosophy, Rochester, MI 48309
I investigate the possibility of modeling ethical intuitions using many valued logic. In standard deontic logic, there is no resource for showing that one obligation is more pressing than another, or that some obligations are not performed. However, it is often the case that we have many obligations and we must rank them against each other in order to see which is the most pressing. Many valued logic allows us to rank obligations against one another so that we can see...
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