von Wright's Action revisited: Actions as Morphisms
(2006) Logique et Analyse —
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- (en) The article presents two systems of deontic logic which draw their inspiration from von Wright's work. The first system is a rather standard reconstruction of von Wright's most well-known systems, pointing to the idea that action should be analyzed as a mapping from a set of conditions to a set of results. The second system explores that idea with some details, exhibiting the very rich structure of actions and making apparent the many different senses one can attach to apparently simple operations: conjunction of actions may be "short" or "long" according to which set of conditions it applies; similar considerations apply to disjunction, implication, etc; negation is particularly rich and appears in five different guises.
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Lucas, T. (2006). von Wright’s Action revisited: Actions as Morphisms. Logique et Analyse. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/163295