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Chisholm’s contrary-to-duty paradox raises important questions for formulating instances of conditional obligation. Angelika Kratzer is one linguist whose theories offer some solutions to these questions; more generally, she provides theories for how we should represent modals, conditionals, and other features of language in terms of functions. Though her theories are incredibly useful, they do not adequately represent the Chisholm scenario as a whole. In this paper, I attempt to address this shortcoming in her theory. First, I present and explain some of Kratzer’s main ideas. Then, I explain how her theory offers a solution to Chisholm’s Paradox, and examine a shortcoming of her theory as presented– specifically, the fact that her theory does not account for the importance of different norms in relation to each other. Finally, with the Chisholm situation as a backdrop, I offer my own contribution to her theory. Namely, I propose assigning an importance “score” to each norm, and factoring that “score” into the machinery of Kratzer’s theory.
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- Keeping Score: Relative Importance of Different Norms in Kratzer’s Semantics
Contributors
- Brooks, Elizabeth (Author)
- nair, shyam (Thesis director)
- Pinillos, Angel (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (Contributor)
- Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Sch (Contributor)
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2024-05
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