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Modal-epistemic variants of Shapiro's system of epistemic arithmetic. [PDF]
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1994 Shapiro's Epistemic Arithmetic, EA, adds an operator, \(K\), to classical first-order arithmetic; this operator, interpreted informally as `is provable in principle', has an S4-like (Barcan-free) modal structure. First-order Heyting arithmetic, HA, can then be translated naturally into EA so that a formula \(A\) is provable in HA iff its translation is
Leon Horsten
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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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Descriptive Indexicals and Epistemic Modality [PDF]
Topoi, 2015 In this paper I argue for a non-referential interpretation of some uses of indexicals embedded under epistemic modals. The so-called descriptive uses of indexicals come in several types and it is argued that those embedded within the scope of modal operators do not require non-referential interpretation, provided the modality is interpreted as ...
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
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AN ACCOUNT OF EPISTEMIC MODALITY IN SHABAKI
آداب الكوفة, 2016 The present paper aims to propose a classificatory and descriptive account of epistemic modal expressions in Shabaki to recognize their syntactic categories and semantic interpretations.
Abbas Sultan
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Ignorance, Introspection, and Epistemic Modals
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2021 Embedded epistemic modals are infelicitous under desire predicates when they are anchored to the belief state of the attitude holder (see, esp., Anand & Hacquard 2013). We present two ways of deriving this observation from an inde- pendently motivated property of desire predicates (Heim 1992; von Fintel 1999).
Luka Crnič, Tue Trinh
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The acquisition of epistemic modality
Proceedings of International Conferences of Experimental Linguistics, 2019 In this paper we try to contribute to the body of knowledge about the acquisition of English epistemic modal verbs (e.g. Mary may/has to be at school). Semantically, these verbs encode possibility or necessity with respect to available evidence. Pragmatically, the use of epistemic modals often gives rise to scalar conversational inferences (Mary may be
Ozge Ozturk, Anna Papafragou
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The Present Perfect as an Epistemic Modal
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 1997 No abstract.
Roumyana Izvorski
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Evidentiality, Epistemic Modality, and Epistemic Status
International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature, 2016 The article discusses the interaction of evidentiality categories, typical of many Turkic, Finno-Ugric, Samoyed, certain Slavic, and other languages with the categories of epistemic modality, which is widely represented particularly in Germanic languages. The methodological framework of this study consists of the general philosophic, general scientific
Guzel Abelkhasanovna Sadrieva +4 more
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Quantification and Epistemic Modality
The Philosophical Review, 2018 Imagine that there is a lottery with only two tickets, a blue ticket and a red ticket. The tickets are also numbered 1 through 2, but we don’t know which color goes with which number.
Dilip Ninan
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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 AbstractThere are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years (1998–2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we callthe problem of modal epistemic friction(PMEF).
Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, Michael Wallner
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