Original scientific paper
A Social Pragmatic View on the Concept of Normative Consistency
Berislav Žarnić
Abstract
The programmatic statement put forward in von Wright’s last works on deontic logic introduces the perspective of logical prag- matics, which has been formally explicated here and extended so to include the role of norm-recipient as well as the role of norm- giver. Using the translation function from the language of deontic logic to the lan- guage of set-theoretical approach, the con- nection has been established between the deontic postulates, on one side, and the per- fection properties of the norm-set and the counter-set, on the other side. In the study of conditions of rational norm-related activ- ities it has been shown that diverse dynamic second-order norms related to the concept of the consistency norm-system hold: – the norm-giver ought to restore “classical” con- sistency by revising an inconsistent system, – the norm-recipient ought to preserve an in- consistent system by revision of its logic so that inconsistency does not imply destruc- tion of the system. Dialetheic deontic logic of Priest is a suitable logic for the purpose since it preserves other perfection proper- ties of the system.
Keywords
concepts of normatively; deontic logic; logical pragmatics
Hrčak ID:
161873
URI
Publication date:
15.7.2016.
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