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This paper is concerned with the quantificational complexities that are implicit in even quite simple statements of prohibition, obligation, and permission in ordinary language. It has for some time been realized that quantifiers do lurk below the surface of such statements, but the intricacies of the situation seem to have been underestimated. In particular, we suggest, there has been a serious misidentification of the appropriate universe of discourse for the quantifiers; and moreover, there has been some oversimplification of the variety of roles which the quantifiers may play.
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Hintikka, Jaakko, ‘Some main problems of deontic logic’, in R. Hilpinen, (ed.), Deontic Logic: Introductory and Systematic Readings, Dordrecht: Reidel, 1970, 59–104.
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Makinson, D. (1981). Quantificational Reefs in Deontic Waters. In: Hilpinen, R. (eds) New Studies in Deontic Logic. Synthese Library, vol 152. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8484-4_3
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