Deontic Logic

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by coluber, Nov 20, 2004.

  1. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    Im sorry if this is not the right place to ask this.... but can anyone give me a clear straight forward explanation of Mally's Deontic Logic. Keeping in mind that i'm... well slow. Also, i just stumbled on it randomly, so i have no back ground once so ever. I understand if it's not possible... Either way it tickled my fancy, and i would be very grateful if someone would explain it to me.

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    Also please don’t be so base as to make fun of my non existing sentence structure and pathetic grammar. I know it’s tempting, but please don’t.

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  3. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    I took a look at some resources on the net on the subject and while I am
    certainly not an expert in this area my 'surface' take on Mally's Deontic Logic
    is that it's a way to represent a person's 'state of interpretation' and predict
    what morally-driven decisions could be made from that state.
     
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  5. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    can you go a bit more indepth with 'state of interpretation' ?
     
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  7. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Sure,

    Lets say that within the course of 10 seconds you witness the
    following events:

    * The room you are in grows very cold and so dark that you cannot see.
    * A gunshot is heard very nearby.
    * You hear a *thud*.
    * The room's temperature and lighting is restored.
    * You see yellow liquid on the wall.
    * FREEZE your thoughts here!

    At the moment your thoughts were frozen, you had an interpretation in
    your mind about what just transpired. This frozen moment of thought is
    a 'state of interpretation'. Does this make sense?
     
  8. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    what are the formulas im a bit lost there
     
  9. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Can't really help with that unless I were to become competent in
    representing and predicting with that language. I suspect to achieve
    such competence it would take at least two weeks of dedicated all-day
    study and practice. Sorry, but I would consider this to be a very rare
    competency... I am not even sure it would be used outside of a classroom
    for that matter.
     
  10. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    can you teach me

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  11. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Possibly. It would mean a 2-week time investment on my part to become
    competent with it, and if it's really that important then I could be swayed
    to act as a consultant and educator for it. Of course, I would recommend
    finding someone whom has taught the subject before (I am sure such
    people can be found from online resources). My costs would be as follows
    if you're interested:

    2 week study period (this is where I learn the language full-time): $8000
    3 days to prepare coursework (full-time): $2400
    3 weeks to teach the subject (full-time; I would expect 8-5 class attendance + homework): $12,000
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Total cost: $22,400 USD

    Let me know if you would like to proceed.

    Thanks,

    -CC
     
  12. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    hmmm tempting but no... i've lost interest in this topic already very short attention span, i'm the epitome of a bourgeois.
     
  13. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Not sure that 'middle class' and a short attention span are related; however,
    please let me know if you change your mind.
     
  14. coluber Registered Senior Member

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    Bourgeois at times is used to describe a person that dabbles in many different things and is really good at none of them. It's really an insulting term that was often used by Marxists and bohemians. I really aught to have used bourgeoise as I am female, but you rarely see that in English.
     
  15. Crunchy Cat F-in' *meow* baby!!! Valued Senior Member

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    Ahh, I see. Thanks for the explanation. 'Jack of all trades, but master of
    nothing'

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  16. firdroirich A friend of The Friends Registered Senior Member

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    It reminded me of the "trust" classes used in the Window$ NT domain authentication, which are explained by microsoft something like
    this
     

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