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(1999) In search of a new humanism, Dordrecht, Springer.
The pragmatic ambiguity (or better pragmatic ambivalence) of deontic sentences is a very well-known phenomenon. This phenomenon has been isolated by the German logician Christoph Sigwart (1830–1905). Deontic sentences (ought-sentences) are subject to a double interpretation: they may be used to prescribe norms (prescriptive deontic sentences) or they may be used to describe norms (descriptive deontic sentences).1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1852-3_24
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Di Lucia, P. (1999)., Sollen between semantics and pragmatics, in R. Egidi (ed.), In search of a new humanism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 215-220.
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