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Epistemic Modality and Coordination under Uncertainty [PDF]
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2021 Communication facilitates coordination, but coordination might fail if there's too much uncertainty. I discuss a scenario in which vagueness-driven uncertainty undermines the possibility of publicly sharing a belief. I then show that asserting an epistemic modal sentence, 'Might p', can reveal the speaker's uncertainty, and that this may improve the ...
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Investigating the Semantic Development of Modal Markers: The Role of Context
Clotho, 2019 The article tackles the problem of studying diachronic semantic changes of modal markers in Latin. It proposes to do so by using context as a proxy for tracing the development of otherwise unchanging forms.
Tomaž Potočnik, Matej Hriberšek
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Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017 This is a cognitive pragmatic study of the use of the items of epistemic modality in a narrative fiction. The aims of this study are to identify, analyze and describe the ways the items of epistemic modality are used. Their contextual meanings, functions,
Lalu Muhaimi +2 more
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Lietuvių Kalba, 2016 The present study examines the expression of modality in the 16th century texts of Old Lithuanian, namely in Jonas Bretkūnas’ Postilė (1591) and Mikalojus Daukša’s Postilė (1599).
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Epistemic and Deontic Modality in Romanian and Serbian Scientific Discourse
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2021 Modal verbs expressing epistemic and deontic modality can be used as discourse markers to implicate the authors’ attitude to the propositional content (doubt, certainty, hedging).
Novakov Predrag, Lazović Mihaela
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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 +1 more
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Modalitas Epistemik -Hazu Da dan Padanannya dalam Bahasa Indonesia
Diglosia, 2023 Japanese epistemic modality can be expressed through by linguistic markers, such as adverb markers indicate the gradient or level of the speaker’s assumptions about a specific phenomenon. This study aims to investigate the epistemic modality of Japanese -
Isye Herawati, Fahri Delfariyadi
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals
Journal of Philosophical LogicMinor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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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
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Epistemic modals and informational consequence [PDF]
Synthese, 2009 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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