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Introduction: Epistemic Modals [PDF]

open access: yesTopoi, 2016
Brit Brogaard, Dimitria Electra Gatzia
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A contrastive analysis of epistemic modality in scientific English

open access: yesRevista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
This paper investigates the use of epistemic expressions in scientific English. The main aim of this research is to analyse if native speakers of English use epistemic modality in the same way than non-native speakers of English and to detect the most ...
María Luisa Carrió Pastor
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Epistemic Modalities

open access: yes, 2009
I present an analysis of the notion of epistemic modalities, based on an appropriate interpretation of two basic constructivist issues: verification and epistemic agency. Starting from an historical analysis of conditions for judgments, I analyze first the reading of necessity with respect to apodictic judgements, and then that of possibility with ...
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Epistemic Modals in Context

open access: yes, 2005
Abstract In the 1970s David Lewis argued for a contextualist treatment of modals (Lewis, 1976, 1979a). Although Lewis was primarily interested in modals connected with freedom and metaphysical possibility, his arguments for contextualism could easily be taken to support contextualism about epistemic modals.
Egan, Andy   +2 more
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Epistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries

open access: yesEpistemic Modality and Non-Epistemic Modality in Modal Auxiliaries
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Epistemic modality in English and Spanish psychological texts

open access: yesRevista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
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Pedro Martín Martín
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On intuitionistic modal epistemic logic

open access: yes, 2016
Consider the language of modal propositional logic extended by one new unary operation \(K\) (`it is verified that'). Let \(IKT_ *\) denote the smallest modal system obtained by adding the modal axiom schema (\(*\)) \(A\leftrightarrow\diamondsuit KA\) to the intuitionistic version \(IKT\) of the normal modal propositional logic \(KT\).
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