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The pragmatic ambiguity (or better pragmatic ambivalence) of deontic sentences is a very well-known phenomenon. This phenomenon has been isolated by the German logician Christoph Sigwart (1830–1905). Deontic sentences (ought-sentences) are subject to a double interpretation: they may be used to prescribe norms (prescriptive deontic sentences) or they may be used to describe norms (descriptive deontic sentences).1
Das Sollen ist ein Denkmodus wie das Futurum und das Präteritum, oder wie der Konjunktiv und der Optativ [...]
Georg Simmel
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Di Lucia, P. (1999). Sollen between Semantics and Pragmatics. In: Egidi, R. (eds) In Search of a New Humanism. Synthese Library, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1852-3_24
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