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The difference between epistemic and metaphysical necessity [PDF]
, 2017 Philosophers have observed that metaphysical necessity appears to be a true or real or genuine form of necessity while epistemic necessity does not. Similarly, natural necessity appears genuine while deontic necessity does not.
Glazier, Martin
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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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Intersubjective strategies in deontic modality: evidential functions of Spanish deber ‘must’
Kalbotyra, 2017 The principal aim of this study is to examine the Spanish modal verb deber ‘must’ in its deontic readings, relating it to the notions of evidentiality and intersubjectivity.
Miriam Thegel
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SAGE Open, 2020 Using a trilingual parallel corpus, this article investigates the translation of Chinese political speeches in Italian and English, with the aim to explore cross-linguistic variations regarding translation shifts of key functional elements in the genre ...
Yu Danni
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The Modal Adverbs mutlaka and kesinlikle in the Context of Directives and Deontic Modality in Turkish [PDF]
The study of deontic modality has largely concentrated on the semantics of linguistic forms with little systematic discussion of its connection to pragmatics.
S¸kriye Ruhi
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A Logic for Reasoning about Group Norms [PDF]
, 2018 We present a number of modal logics to reason about group norms. As a preliminary step, we discuss the ontological status of the group to which the norms are applied, by adapting the classification made by Christian List of collective
Porello, Daniele
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World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 606-623, December 2025.Abstract This study reports on data from two 6‐week virtual intercultural exchanges (VIEs) between teachers of multilingual learners in K‐12 schools in Türkiye and the United States. Using the data from these asynchronous VIEs, we focus on Turkish world Englishes speakers’ use of epistemic markers and evidentials.
Melike Uzum +4 more
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Deontic Logic and Natural Language [PDF]
There has been a recent surge of work on deontic modality within philosophy of language. This work has put the deontic logic tradition in contact with natural language semantics, resulting in significant increase in sophistication on both ends.
Cariani, Fabrizio
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 428-459, November 2025.Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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