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An exact truthmaker semantics for obligation and permission Ghent University
Trust-makers or trust-breakers? : governmental responses to food safety incidents in Japan Ghent University
Subtracting reasons in normative domains Ghent University
Practical reasons can be aggregated to decide what one ought to do. This paper explores an operation that undoes aggregation: subtraction. I consider several distinctions concerning subtraction: subtracting content and subtracting strength; and subtracting one reason from one other reason or from a set of reasons. I put forward a precise understanding of subtracting the content of one reason from another, based on an operation of difference on a ...