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A unified analysis of the future as epistemic modality [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Language & 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.
Giannakidou, Anastasia, Mari, Alda
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“Trust me, do not trust anyone”: how epistemic mistrust and credulity are associated with conspiracy mentality

open access: yesResearch in Psychotherapy, 2023
Previous research shows that the propensity to endorse conspiracy theories is associated with disrupted forms of epistemic trust, i.e., the appropriate openness towards interpersonally communicated information.
Felix Brauner   +5 more
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The Epistemic Status of Propositions of Future Events [PDF]

open access: yesIdea. Studia nad strukturą i rozwojem pojęć filozoficznych, 2014
George Ukagba: Drgeorgeuzo2000@yahoo.com; Sylvester Idemudia Odia: slyodia2002@yahoo.com ; Dr George Ukagba PhD, Sylvester Idemudia Odia – Department of Philosophy and Religions, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Nigeria; ; 26 ; 393 ...
Ukagba, George, Idemudia Odia, Sylvester
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Presumptive mood, factivity and epistemic indefinites in Romanian

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014
This paper investigates the properties of the Romanian presumptive mood and the role it plays in the distribution of the epistemic indefinite vreun. We focus on the morphologically complex future-based paradigm, which includes forms based on the literary
Anamaria Falaus
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Active Inference and Epistemic Value in Graphical Models

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) postulates that biological agents perceive and interact with their environment in order to minimize a Variational Free Energy (VFE) with respect to a generative model of their environment. The inference of a policy (future
Thijs van de Laar   +5 more
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What is the ‘Future’ of Greek? Towards a Pragmatic Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The paper investigates the problems related to futurity and modality in modern Greek. The discussion of Greek temporal future expressions is conducted with reference to relevant literature from the areas of English linguistics, cognitive studies and ...
Chiou, Michael
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Futuros en contrapunto: proyección, predicción y deseo en maya yucateco

open access: yesJournal de la Société des Américanistes, 2017
This paper studies the ways in which the contemporary Yucatec Maya apprehend the future and project themselves into it. It is based on an analysis of linguistic choices in the expression of prospective utterances, which are examined ethnographically in ...
Valentina Vapnarsky
doaj   +1 more source

Solar PV Stochastic Hosting Capacity Assessment Considering Epistemic (E) Probability Distribution Function (PDF)

open access: yesElectricity, 2022
This paper presents a stochastic approach to assessing the hosting capacity for solar PV. The method is part of the optimal techniques for the integration of renewables.
Enock Mulenga
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: new insights from the epistemic future

open access: yesSemantics and Linguistic Theory, 2019
The epistemic future (e.g., the epistemic uses of English will) is often analyzed on a par with epistemic must. We provide novel empirical evidence from English and Romanian in deduction and factive contexts to argue that this identical treatment is not warranted.
Mihoc, Teodora   +2 more
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A cognitive-pragmatic view of the French epistemic future [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of French Language Studies, 2011
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we review the various types of epistemic usages of the (simple and anterior) future tenses in French with the assumption that what actually licenses their occurrence is not a semantic feature such as aspect but pragmatic effects that give relevance to the utterance at the moment of speech.
DE SAUSSURE, LOUIS, MORENCY, PATRICK
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