@article{ref1, title="'Ought implies can' and the law", journal="Inquiry : an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences", year="2018", author="Fox, Chris and Feis, Guglielmo", volume="61", number="4", pages="370-393", abstract="In this paper, we investigate the 'ought implies can' (OIC) thesis, focusing on explanations and interpretations of OIC, with a view to clarifying its uses and relevance to legal philosophy. We first review various issues concerning the semantics and pragmatics of OIC; then we consider how OIC may be incorporated in Hartian and Kelsenian theories of the law. Along the way we also propose a taxonomy of OIC-related claims.

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", language="en", issn="0020-174X", doi="10.1080/0020174X.2017.1371873", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1371873" }