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Reasons and Abilities: Some Preliminaries


John Gardner


University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
June 11, 2012

Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30/2012

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In this paper (not yet submitted for publication) I raise some interpretative questions about the saying 'ought implies can', and suggest that some of the appeal of the saying may come from failure to disentangle different interpretations.

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Keywords: Kant, ought, duty, reason, ability, can, trying, succeeding

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Date posted: June 12, 2012  

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Gardner, John, Reasons and Abilities: Some Preliminaries (June 11, 2012). Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 30/2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2081960 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2081960

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