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Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Grigoroglou M, Ganea PA.
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Introduction: Epistemic Modals
, 2017 An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss on the epistemic modals or expressions in which a sentence uses auxiliaries including might , must and seem and adverbials such as possibly , probably and perhaps
Gatzia, Dimitria Electra +1 more
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When AI outputs become documents: Documentation activity in human–AI dialogue
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Large language models (LLMs) generate texts that increasingly circulate as documents in knowledge infrastructures, yet their documentary status remains theoretically underdetermined. Unlike traditional documents, LLM outputs lack identifiable authorship, stable provenance, or testimonial grounding.
Sascha Donner
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The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance.
Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
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Young children's understanding of the epistemic and deontic meanings of ask and tell. [PDF]
J Exp Child Psychol, 2022 Wylie BE +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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What embedded counterfactuals tell us about the semantics of attitudes. [PDF]
Linguist Vanguard, 2022 Haslinger N, Schmitt V.
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The Trivial Argument for Epistemic Value Pluralism, or, How I Learned to Stop Caring about Truth
, 2009 Relativism offers a nifty way of accommodating most of our intuitions about epistemic modals, predicates of personal taste, colour expressions, future contingents, and conditionals.
Berit Brogaard, Brogaard, Berit
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract With growing attention to student agency in academic and policy discourse, international education has become a prominent context for examining how students navigate new cultural, academic, linguistic and social environments. However, much of this discussion attributes student agency to the ‘international’ aspect, while overlooking the ...
Soyoung Lee
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Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: New insights from the epistemic future
, 2019 International audienceThe epistemic future (e.g., the epistemic uses of English will) is often analyzed on a par with epistemic must. We provide novel empirical evidence from English and Romanian in deduction and factive contexts to argue that this ...
Falaus, Anamaria +2 more
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