1 Constitutive Norms and Counts - as Con - ditionals
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چکیده
The chapter introduces the theory of constitutive rules and counts-as statements from a philosophical/informal point of view and addresses existing attempts to provide a formalization of it. These attempts are concisely described and compared along three main lines: one pertaining to their contribution to the clarification of a set of selected benchmark problems (e.g., institutional power, classificatory rules, conventions etc.); the second pertaining to their methodology (axiomatic/syntactic vs. model-theoretic/semantic approaches); the third pertaining to their strictly formal properties. On the grounds of such systematic comparisons the chapter also identifies open questions and points to future research directions that the authors consider essential in order to shed further light on constitutive rules and counts-as.
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