This paper presents a nonmonotonic deontic logic based on commonsense entailment. It establishes criteria a successful account of obligation should satisfy, and develops a theory that satisfies them. The theory includes two conditional notions of prima facie obligation. One is constitutive; the other is epistemic, and follows nonmonotonically from the constitutive notion. The paper defines unconditional notions of prima facie obligation in terms of the conditional notions. © 1996 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Asher, N., & Bonevac, D. (1996). Prima facie obligation. Studia Logica, 57(1), 19–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370668
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