deontic
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- adjective
- /diˈɒntɪk/
- Specialized
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deóntico
- He refers to his own soul as "perfect." "Shall" in line 31 is a deontic modal marking intentionality, which is to say that in the discourse between Othello's parts, title, and soul, Othello has the ability to reveal himself as he truly is, a man of worth and character.
Examples
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The rational recognition of others takes, instead, the form of deontic constraints on one's liberty to use others.
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The rules of the game include several deontic permissions and prohibitions that players must follow.
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And so let's start with the idea of deontic concepts.
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And so Marx thinks that the ideas, the deontic ideas of rights.
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The deontic system is thematized in the narrative structure described by Propp: **32;315;TOOLONG.
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Consequentialists instead hold that the deontic status of an act depends on the agent's evidence regarding the probabilities of various outcomes at the time of acting.
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Dolezel distinguishes four types of global modal restrictions: alethic, deontic, axiologic, and epistemic.
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(ii) MOF's second objection is that if the future is unsettled, then (consequentialism implies) at no time can an act have a settled deontic status, since it remains an open possibility that some overwhelmingly good or bad effect is yet to come about.
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A central motivation for this shift is to render judgments about particular acts less directly subject to any utilitarian calculus and thereby to provide these local judgments with a greater deontic coloration.
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If the consequentializing folks are right, then presumably the deontic verdicts of all substantive normative theories are coextensive (despite differences in the relevant reasons for each theory).
Blog text (34)
Synonyms
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About moral rules that say an action is right or wrong no matter the result
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
deontic = deont + ic
Formed from the Greek combining form 'deont-' (duty) + the adjective suffix '-ic'; the combining form is not a standalone English word, so the relation to 'duty/obligation' is not transparently recoverable by a typical B1 learner.
Etymology
Deontic comes from the Greek root deon, which means 'duty' or 'what must be done'. A helpful way to remember it is to think that deontic words show duty, permission, or what is not allowed, so they tell you what people 'must' or 'may' do.