Command and consequence * Josh Parsons 08/10/10 Table of Contents 1 The problem of imperative consequence................................................................................................ 2 1.1 Three virtues in a criterion of validity.............................................................................................2 2 The standard view................................................................................................................................... 3 2.1 Content-validity...............................................................................................................................4 2.2 Fallacies of mood............................................................................................................................ 5 2.3 Codifying the fallacies of mood...................................................................................................... 6 2.4 Hare's criterion................................................................................................................................ 7 2.5 The uncodifiability of the fallacies of mood................................................................................... 8 3 Preposcription semantics.......................................................................................................................10 3.1 What is a preposcription?.............................................................................................................. 11 3.2 Conditional commands..................................................................................................................14 3.3 Logical connectives.......................................................................................................................15 3.4 Solving the problem of imperative consequence.......................................................................... 17 3.5 Imperassertion............................................................................................................................... 18 4 Objections and alternatives................................................................................................................... 21 4.1 Questions.......................................................................................................................................21 4.2 Ross's paradox............................................................................................................................... 21 4.3 Some (surprisingingly) invalid argument forms............................................................................22 4.4 Compliance gaps........................................................................................................................... 24 4.5 Cognitivism................................................................................................................................... 26 4.6 Geach's argument.......................................................................................................................... 28 4.7 Permissions....................................................................................................................................30 * Thanks for comments and discussion on this paper to Charles Pigden, Dorothy Grover, Annette Baier, Jonathan McKeown-Green, Denis Robinson, Patrick Girard, Hannah Clark-Younger, Hannah Burgess, Peter Vranas. Command and consequence - 08/10/10 - 1