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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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Ability as dependence modality
Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1126-1152, December 2025.Abstract Some modal expressions in language—for example, “can” and “able”—describe what is possible in light of someone's abilities. Ability modals are obviously related to other modalities in language, such as epistemic or deontic modality, but also give rise to anomalies that make them unique.
Paolo Santorio
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Deontic modality and media discourse
, 2017 This work aims at analyzing the deontic modality in the media discourse, seeking to integrate the contextual, pragmatic, semantic and morphosyntatic aspects. With the theoretical support of the Discourse Functional Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008), we make an integrated analysis of the manifestation of variables related to the context, as well as ...
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The Ubiquity of Higher‐Order Defeat
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 231-241, December 2025.ABSTRACT Evidence for cognitive impairment—say, by bias or hypoxia—can defeat the epistemic permissibility of belief. This paper argues that such higher‐order defeat is an instance of a more basic normative phenomenon: whenever the permissibility of one's belief is defeated, it is defeated by an epistemic reason to withhold belief that is provided by ...
Sebastian Schmidt
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What Is Wrong with Imposing Risk of Harm?
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 248-256, December 2025.ABSTRACT When and why is it wrong to impose a pure risk of harm on others? A pure risk of harm is a risk that fails to materialise into the harm that is threatened. It initially seems puzzling on what grounds a pure risk of harm can be wrong. There have been multiple attempts to explain the wrongness of imposing risk either by reference to the badness ...
Thomas Rowe
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 Several aspects of the modality system in Modern Hebrew are examined. In general, Hebrew modal expressions are found to be unambiguous as to epistemic and deontic interpretations.
Dromi, Esther
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Language, culture and society: Modality, face and societal logic
Globe, 2023 It is common to distinguish between individualistic cultures typically associated with Western countries and collectivistic cultures normally linked to Asian countries.
Per Durst-Andersen
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Modal Auxiliaries in Sorani Kurdish [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2013 “Modality is concerned with the status of the proposition that describes the event” (Palmer, 2001: 1). This grammatical category is common to every language, shown by the help of some grammatical or lexical elements such as mood, auxiliaries, clitics ...
Roonak Moradi
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Logical Analogies: Interpretations, Oppositions, and Probabilism
Philosophies, 2019 I present two logical systems to show the “analogy of proportionality„ common to several interpretations: modality (necessity and possibility), quantification, truth-functional relations, moral attitudes (deontic logic), states of knowledge ...
Walter Redmond
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Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2017 An approach to the translation of deontic modality in legal texts. The case of the Polish and English versions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union The co-existence of twenty-four legal languages in the European Union is ...
Maciej Paweł Jaskot, Agnieszka Wiltos
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