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TY - GEN ID - cogprints4756 UR - http://cogprints.org/4756/ A1 - Hoche, Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Y1 - 2004/// N2 - According to a two-level criterion for combination tests in the field of ordinary language (C-CT), moral 'ought'-sentences may be taken to imply 'I intend'-sentences partly semantically and partly pragmatically. If so, a trenchant linguistic analysis of the concept of moral obligation cannot do without a non-classical logic which allows to model these important kinds of ordinary-language implications by means of purely syntactical derivations. For this purpose, an integrated logic of conviction and intention has been tentatively devised by way of a doxastically, buletically, and pragmatically extended calculus of natural deduction. This system of buletic logic cannot even be launched without one or two derivation rules of deductive closedness. However, these very closedness rules appear to be responsible for buletic paradoxes which are analogous to paradoxes long since known from other, less exotic branches of logic but at first sight look much more virulent. After having scrutinized two potential strategies for coping with the paradoxes of buletic logic, finally we can convince ourselves that these paradoxes, as well as their familiar non-buletic counterparts, are but apparent paradoxes, provided we consistently lean on C-CT and do not let pragmatical considerations intrude into purely logical ones. PB - Duncker & Humblot KW - Combination tests KW - deductive closedness KW - doxastic logic KW - entailment KW - Hare KW - logical paradoxes KW - logic of willing and believing KW - metaethics KW - moral obligation KW - natural deduction KW - 'ought'-sentences KW - pragmatical implication KW - pragmatical vs. logical considerations TI - In Search of an Integrated Logic of Conviction and Intention SP - 401 AV - public EP - 434 ER -