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Ross's paradox highlights the challenge faced by anyone who wants to modify or add to the standard account of validity. The challenge is what we mean by a valid imperative inference. For valid declarative inference, the premises give you a reason to believe the conclusion.
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Ross, like Immanuel Kant, is a deontologist: he holds that rightness depends on adherence to duties, not on consequences. [1] But against Kant's monism, which bases ethics in only one foundational principle, the categorical imperative , Ross contends that there is a plurality of prima facie duties determining what is right.
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[1] The term was introduced by John Robert Ross in 1967. [2] It references the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, where a piper lures rats and children away from their town. In syntactic pied-piping, a focused expression (such as an interrogative word) pulls its host phrase with it when it moves to its new position in the sentence. [3]
John Robert "Haj" Ross (born May 7, 1938) is an American poet and linguist. He played a part in the development of generative semantics (as opposed to interpretive semantics ) along with George Lakoff , James D. McCawley , and Paul Postal . [ 2 ]
The second article is a condensed and simplified version of Professor Ross’ "Linguistic Class-Indicators in Present-Day English", [10] which appeared in 1954 in the Finnish philological periodical Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. For him the English class-system was essentially tripartite — there exists an upper, a middle, and a lower class.
George Ross Ihaka (born 1954 [2]) is a New Zealand statistician who was an associate professor of statistics at the University of Auckland until his retirement in 2017. [3] Alongside Robert Gentleman , he is one of the creators of the R programming language .