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Norm conflicts and epistemic modals [PDF]
Cognitive Psychology, 2023 Statements containing epistemic modals (e.g., "by spring 2023 most European countries may have the Covid-19 pandemic under control") are common expressions of epistemic uncertainty. In this paper, previous published findings (Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo & Phillips, 2018) on the opposition between Contextualism and Relativism for epistemic modals are re ...
Niels Skovgaard-Olsen, John Cantwell
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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 +2 more
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The Orthologic of Epistemic Modals
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2023 Minor edits for final version forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical ...
Wesley H Holliday +2 more
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Stance modals in Chinese EFL learners' monologue tasks: A corpus-based study. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis study investigates how Chinese tertiary-level EFL learners used modals as linguistic devices for expressing stances in spoken English. Modals convey speakers' commitment to propositions (epistemic stance) and intentions to affect reality (effective ...
Wei Wang, Haixiao Wang
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Epistemic modals and informational consequence [PDF]
SynthÈse, 2009 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Moritz Schulz
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data [PDF]
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 [PDF]
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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Interpreting past epistemic modals in English, Dutch, and French
GlossaAccording to many authors (Cinque 1999, Hacquard 2006, a.o.), epistemic modals in sentences such as “It had to be raining last night” always scope over past tense, expressing a present epistemic claim about a past event. However, there is no consensus on
Annemarie van Dooren, Anouk Dieuleveut
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Linguistics and PhilosophyAbstract The paper formalizes a change of camera angle on the classic Stalnakerian account of assertion, foregrounding that the speaker is presenting herself as though she knows the sentence she’s uttered to be true, and deriving context update from a proposal that the context set be modified so as to become a member of the same property of ...
Deniz Rüdin
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Restriction without Quantification: Embedding and Probability for Indicative Conditionals
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 Many modern theories of indicative conditionals treat them as restricted epistemic necessity modals. This view, however, faces two problems. First, indicative conditionals do not behave like necessity modals in embedded contexts, e.g., under ‘might’ and ‘
Ivano Ciardelli
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