Complex sentence: Such systems have sometimes been characterized as "reductions" of deontic logic to alethic modal logic; this is misleading at best, since alethic modal logics do not contain anything like the special v constant.
Split into simpler sentences: Such systems have sometimes been characterized as "reductions" of deontic logic to alethic modal logic. This is misleading at best, since alethic modal logics do not contain anything like the special v constant.