What is an omission?

Philosophical Issues 22 (1):127-143 (2012)
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This paper examines three views of what an omission or an instance of refraining is. The view advanced is that in many cases, an omission is simply an absence of an action of some type. However, generally one’s not doing a certain thing counts as an omission only if there is some norm, standard, or ideal that calls for one’s doing that thing.

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10.1111/j.1533-6077.2012.00221.x

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Randolph Clarke
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Absence of action.Randolph Clarke - 2012 - Philosophical Studies 158 (2):361-376.
Omissions, Responsibility, and Symmetry.Randolph Clarke - 2011 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 82 (3):594-624.

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