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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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Identification of Missing Knowledge in MBSE System Models Using Graph‐Based Machine Learning

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The design and development of complex aerospace systems pose significant challenges due to their growing complexity. Iterative design processes, guided by formal specifications, strive to refine initially vague characteristics through multiple stages.
Esma Karagoz, Olivia J. Pinon Fischer, Dimitri Mavris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asserting epistemic modals

Linguistics and Philosophy
Abstract The paper formalizes a change of camera angle on the classic Stalnakerian account of assertion, foregrounding that the speaker is presenting herself as though she knows the sentence she’s uttered to be true, and deriving context update from a proposal that the context set be modified so as to become a member of the same property of ...
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Aspects of epistemic modality in Tapirapé

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2013
This paper describes some of the resources used by speakers of Tapirapé, a language of the Tupi-Guarani family, to encode source and reliability of information.
Walkíria Neiva Praça
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TEACHING EPISTEMIC MODALITY THROUGH A NEWSPAPER TEXT [PDF]

, 2021
Vladimir Ozyumenko
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For an inviting anthropology Pour une anthropologie accueillante

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists have recently become inspired, captivated even, by the practices of the arts, design, and architecture in efforts to renew anthropology's modes of engagement and understandings of its relevance, particularly affecting how we approach ethnographic fieldwork.
Tomás Criado, Francisco Martínez, Eeva Berglund   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Grammaticalization, polysemy and iterated modality: the case of should.

Corela, 2007
This article addresses the question of iterated modality from the twofold perspective of grammaticalization and polysemy through the semantic description of various uses of should in contemporary English, and more particularly that of “meditative-polemic
Viviane Arigne
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Disclosure, disbelief, enclosure: listening with precarious kids in London Témoignage, incrédulité, enfermement: écouter les enfants en situation de précarité à Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article interrogates the role of testimonial disclosure as a mechanism of access and a barrier to visibility for marginal people, particularly adolescents, in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2024 in alternative educational provision (AP), as well as in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes ...
Kelly Fagan Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

New Work For Certainty [PDF]

, 2020
This paper argues that we should assign certainty a central place in epistemology. While epistemic certainty played an important role in the history of epistemology, recent epistemology has tended to dismiss certainty as an unattainable ideal, focusing ...
Beddor, Bob
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Epistemic modal credence

, 2021
Triviality results threaten plausible principles governing our credence in epistemic modal claims. This paper develops a new account of modal credence which avoids triviality. On the resulting theory, probabilities are assigned not to sets of worlds, but rather to sets of information state- world pairs.
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