Philosopher: Nations are not literally persons; they have no thoughts or feelings, and, literally speaking, they per...

rinavaleriano March 15, 2021

Question about diagramming a premise

"They have no moral rights or responsibilities." In regard to the previous sentence, should this be diagrammed as a "no" statement? I thought you would diagram this as N -> MRR since you would have to take the negation of "no moral rights.." Should you only interpret it as a "no" statement when no is at the beginning of the sentence?

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Emil-Kunkin March 23, 2023

While you could diagram this as a no statement, I don't know how useful it would be. To say that nations have no right or responsibilities means that if something is a nation, then it has no rights or responsibilities