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Licentiae can certainly be rephrased in terms of rights, but the determina is distinct from the dictum precisely because it is ... a charge rather an obligatory duty.

Archive 2010-01-01

Licentiae can certainly be rephrased in terms of rights, but the determina is distinct from the dictum precisely because it is ... a charge rather an obligatory duty.

Modality and Hamlet

In fact, I reject your (absolutist) authority and take your dictum -- that sneakily hidden deontic "must" -- as a mere determina -- a deontic "should."

Modality and Hamlet

The basic modalites manifest as quirks in and of themselves — dicta, licentia and determina.

Archive 2009-06-01

In fact, there's a competing determina saying I should not comply.

Modality and Hamlet

The gist of Claudius's speech contains an implicit licentia -- that Hamlet may carry on like this if he so chooses -- though it's the complementary determina -- that he really should not -- which is the main thrust.

Modality and Hamlet

Where Avicenna views comedy as the art of reprehension, we might wonder if this implies a fundamental recoognition of determina/monstrum, of that which “should not” happen.

Archive 2009-06-01

That "duties" tacitly acknowledges a determina of appropriate grief, acknowledges that Hamlet has been doing what he should have been doing.

Modality and Hamlet

La nacionalidad no se determina en donde naces, sino de donde vienes.

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The numen or monstrum, as it pertains to a potential action, is the staccatum rendered absolute, just as the dictum is the determina rendered absolute, stripped of any potential alternative.

Modality and Hamlet