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Epistemic Future and epistemic modal verbs in Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020
This paper discusses the semantics of two epistemic operators in Portuguese: the epistemic Future and modal verbs. The idea sustained in the literature for other languages that the epistemic Future has the same semantics as the modal verb (equivalent to)
Rui Marques
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The Future of Epistemic Possibility [PDF]

Kriterion (Austria), 2017
Abstract I am concerned with epistemic possibility expressions (EPEs) such as \It might be raining." Much of the discussion of EPEs has concerned the fact that a given EPE can seem true in one context and false in another. Motivated by this data, contextualists have argued that modal expressions are sensitive to information at a context ...
Meagan Lowell Phillips
exaly   +3 more sources

Epistemic Beliefs: Relationship to Future Expectancies and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients [PDF]

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2022
Expectations about the future (future expectancies) are important determinants of psychological well-being among cancer patients, but the strategies patients use to maintain positive and cope with negative expectancies are incompletely understood.To obtain preliminary evidence on the potential role of one strategy for managing future expectancies: the ...
, Elizabeth Scharnetzki
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Conclusions: Closing the Epistemic Circle and Future Struggles [PDF]

, 2021
Joachim J. Savelsberg
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A unified analysis of the future as epistemic modality [PDF]

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2017
We offer an analysis of the Greek and Italian future morphemes as epistemic modal operators. The main empirical motivation comes from the fact that future morphemes have systematic purely epistemic readings-not only in Greek and Italian, but also in Dutch, German, and En-glish will.
Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari, Giannakidou Anastasia   +2 more
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Whose future?: Epistemic challenges to the collective ‘we’ in long-term governance

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
Building on insights from Science & Technology Studies and epistemology, this article critically examines the epistemic underpinnings of long-term governance (LTG), particularly its implicit assumptions about temporality, collective agency, and the ...
Martin Böhnert
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Epistemic utility theory’s difficult future [PDF]

SynthÈse, 2021
According to epistemic utility theory, epistemic rationality is teleological: epistemic norms are instrumental norms that have the aim of acquiring accuracy. What’s definitive of these norms is that they can be expected to lead to the acquisition of accuracy when followed.
Chad Marxen
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Epistemic stance without epistemic modals: the case of the presumptive future

Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2019
This paper deals with the non-temporal use of the future in Italian knownas ‘epistemic’ or ‘presumptive’ (PF) in declaratives and interrogatives. We firstdistinguish PF from epistemic necessity and possibility, as well as from weaknecessity modals, providing in the process the main empirical challenges PF raises.We then propose and justify a semantic ...
Michela Ippolito, Donka F. Farkas
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Epistemic participation: How to produce knowledge about the economic future [PDF]

Social Studies of Science, 2013
This article explores economic forecasting by examining the various social settings and networks economic forecasters are embedded in. It discusses how forecasters meet with political and economic actors and also how members of forecasting teams embody main aggregates of the economy to commonly produce a consensus about the economic future.
Werner Reichmann
exaly   +3 more sources

AI, Open Platforms, and the Epistemic Future of Peer Review

  This paper examines how emerging AI-mediated verification systems and open scholarly platforms are reshaping the epistemic foundations of academic peer review. It argues that traditional approval-based review mechanisms are increasingly misaligned with framework-based and structurally verifiable research, and proposes a layered verification model ...
Jim Y. Huang
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