prima facie obligations

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Obligations that hold unless overridden by stronger considerations

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Malte WillerElucidations · Episode 75: Malte Willer discusses non-monotonic logic · 12:37 · Sep 2015
…So what we have here is one of these cases which involves what we might call prima facie obligations, the fact that you promised to meet a friend for lunch together with general normative principles like you ought to keep your promises, we, I think, can all agree is true, seems to license a certain inference, namely the inference to the conclusion that you o…
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