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Indicative Conditionals and Dynamic Epistemic Logic [PDF]

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2017
Recent ideas about epistemic modals and indicative conditionals in formal semantics have significant overlap with ideas in modal logic and dynamic epistemic logic.
Wesley H. Holliday, Thomas F. Icard III
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New Horizons for a Theory of Epistemic Modals [PDF]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2019
Recent debate over the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic modals has focused on intuitions about cross-contextual truth-value assessments. In this paper, we advocate a different approach to evaluating theories of epistemic modals. Our strategy focuses
Khoo, Justin, Phillips, Jonathan
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Semantic expressivism for epistemic modals [PDF]

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2020
AbstractExpressivists about epistemic modals deny that ‘Jane might be late’ canonically serves to express the speaker’s acceptance of a certain propositional content. Instead, they hold that it expresses a lack of acceptance (that Jane isn’t late). Prominent expressivists embrace pragmatic expressivism: the doxastic property expressed by a declarative ...
Peter Hawke, Shane Steinert-Threlkeld
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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation

Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2018
In the present study, samples of late Modern English scientific texts have been analysed to evaluate cases of epistemic modality as realised by modal verbs.
Francisco J. Álvarez Gil
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Embedding Epistemic Modals [PDF]

Mind, 2013
Seth Yalcin has pointed out some puzzling facts about the behaviour of epistemic modals in certain embedded contexts. For example, conditionals that begin If it is raining and it might not be raining, sound unacceptable, unlike conditionals that begin If it is raining and I don t know it, .
Dorr, C, Hawthorne, J
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals

Journal of Philosophical Logic
Minor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H. Holliday, Matthew Mandelkern
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
Recently, a number of theorists (MacFarlane (2003, 2011), Egan, Hawthorne & Weatherson (2005), Egan (2007), Stephenson (2007a,b)) have argued that an adequate semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist ...
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2012
The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature.
Valentine Hacquard, Alexis Wellwood
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals [PDF]

arXiv.org, 2022
Epistemic modals have peculiar logical features that are challenging to account for in a broadly classical framework. For instance, while a sentence of the form $p\wedge\Diamond\neg p$ ('$p$, but it might be that not $p$') appears to be a contradiction, $
W. Holliday, M. Mandelkern
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Epistemic Modals in Hypothetical Reasoning

Erkenntnis: An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy, 2022
Data involving epistemic modals suggest that some classically valid argument forms, such as reductio , are invalid in natural language reasoning as they lead to modal collapses.
M. Aloni, Luca Incurvati, J. Schlöder
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