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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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Deontic modals and hyperintensionality
Logic Journal of the IGPL, 2019 Abstract In this paper I argue that deontic modals are hyperintensional, i.e. logically equivalent contents cannot be substituted in their scope. I give two arguments, one deductive and the other abductive. First, I show that the contrary thesis (that deontic modals are not hyperintensional) leads to falsity; second, I argue that a ...
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Modals with a taste of the deontic [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2013 The aim of this paper is to present an explanation for the impact of normative considerations on people's assessment of certain seemingly purely descriptive matters concerning freedom, causation, and intentionality. The explanation is based on two main claims.
Joshua Knobe, Zoltán Gendler Szabó
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Quantifiers for a Modal Future
Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Future auxiliaries present a challenge to the classical analysis of modal expressions as existential or universal quantifiers over a contextually provided set of possible worlds: these expressions come with a distinct modal flavor, but their interaction with negation and the fact that future judgments come in degrees of confidence is ...
Malte Willer
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From simple predicators to clausal functors : The english modals through time and the primitives of modality [PDF]
, 2013 The ultimate goal of this paper is to find a representation of modality compatible with some basic conditions on the syntax-semantic interface. Such conditions are anchored, for instance, in Chomsky's (1995) principle of full interpretation (FI ...
Gergel, Remus
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Detection and resolution of normative conflicts in multi-agent systems : a literature survey [PDF]
, 2017 Peer ...
Santos, Jéssica +4 more
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Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
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The necessitive impersonal REIK(Ė)TI ‘need’: the rise of modal meaning
Lietuvių Kalba, 2017 The focus of the paper is on the frequency, distribution patterns and semantic profile of the necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’ in old and contemporary Lithuanian texts.
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė +1 more
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On modality in Georgian sign language (GESL) [PDF]
, 2017 Modality is one of the most fascinating and complex areas of language studies. This paper illustrates the types of modal constructions in Georgian Sign language (GESL), including negative forms.
Makharoblidze, Tamar
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, 2018 It is well known that systems of action deontic logic emerging from a standard analysis of permission in terms of possibility of doing an action without incurring in a violation of the law are subject to paradoxes.
Canavotto, Ilaria, Giordani, Alessandro
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