  It is to be noted, however, that a proper understanding and analysis of Mally’s deontic logic can only be reached through his particular meta-ethical view. This will be sketched in  section 3, and it is also touched  by Mally 1940 in his paper on “objective truth”. Yet not even the most recent study of the critical work on Mally’s deontic logic (Krickler 2008) seems to be aware of Mally’s philosophy of values and its peculiar description of value (Wert) and ought  (Sollen): “Value and ought can only be understood via emotional presentation” (Mally 1926: 74 or Mally 1971: 312). Much more about that will be explained in the following section, especially at the end of  section 3.3.3 below.