defeasible under
Property
http://proethica.org/ontology/core#defeasibleUnder
Class Hierarchy
- defeasible under
Definition
Relates an obligation to a State whose obtaining renders the obligation defeasible, that is, subject to override by a competing obligation with stronger normative support. The State specifies the context in which the obligation yields.
Properties
@prefix iao: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder a owl:ObjectProperty ;
rdfs:label "defeasible under"@en ;
iao:0000119 "Ross and Stratton-Lake (2007). The Right and the Good. Clarendon Press." ;
rdfs:comment "Relates an obligation to a State whose obtaining renders the obligation defeasible, that is, subject to override by a competing obligation with stronger normative support. The State specifies the context in which the obligation yields."@en ;
rdfs:domain proeth-core:Obligation ;
rdfs:range proeth-core:State ;
skos:definition "Links an Obligation to a State whose obtaining activates the obligation's defeasibility."@en ;
skos:scopeNote "Typical pattern: an obligation that normally holds becomes defeasible when a State representing risk or unrealizability obtains. The circumstance-dependence follows the prima facie duty account: whether a prima facie duty becomes the duty proper depends on the circumstances that obtain (Ross and Stratton-Lake 2007). The unrealizability arm adapts Kant's ought-implies-can principle, whose computational analogue Stenseke (2024) develops: an obligation lapses when the agent lacks the capacity to discharge it. As a design extension, an Obligation is also defeasible when fulfilling it would cause a harm the role exists to prevent."@en .