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Epistemic Modality

2011
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On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs [PDF]

Journal of Pragmatics, 2022
This paper argues for a conceptual distinction between epistemic modality and discourse strategy, and aims to disentangle both notions by showing how they relate to each other on the basis of corpus data.
Vitor Miguez
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An Update on Epistemic Modals

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2015
Epistemic modals are a prominent topic in the literature on natural language semantics, with wide-ranging implications for issues in philosophy of language and philosophical logic. Considerations about the role that epistemic might and must play in discourse and reasoning have led to the development of several important alternatives to classical ...
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Graded modalities in epistemic logic

1992
We propose an epistemic logic with so-called graded modalities, in which certain types of knowledge are expressible that are less absolute than in traditional epistemic logic. Beside ‘absolute knowledge’ (which does not allow for any exception), we are also able to express ‘accepting ϕ if there at most n exceptions to ϕ’.
Wiebe van der Hoek, John-Jules Ch. Meyer
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Temporalizing Modal Epistemic Logic

2013
Timed Modal Epistemic Logic, tMEL, is a newly introduced logical framework for reasoning about the modeled agent’s knowledge. The framework, derived from the study of Justification Logic, is adapted from the traditional Modal Epistemic Logic, MEL, to serve as a logically non-omniscient epistemic logic and dealing with problems where the temporal ...
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Dynamics of Epistemic Modality

The Philosophical Review, 2013
A dynamic semantics for epistemically modalized sentences is an attractive alternative to the orthodox view that our best theory of meaning ascribes to such sentences truth-conditions relative to what is known. This essay demonstrates that a dynamic theory about might and must offers elegant explanations of a range of puzzling observations about ...
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Epistemic Modality

2005
This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often disregarded in comparative analyses.
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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality

2023
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European ...
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The Expression of Epistemic Modality

2014
This chapter provides an overview of how epistemic modal meanings are expressed in the languages of the world. It first presents a survey of different types of epistemic modal expressions. Then some examples of morphosyntactic systems of epistemic modality are given.
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Introduction: Epistemic Modals and Epistemic Modality

2011
Brian Weatherson, Andy Egan
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