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Epistemic modals and informational consequence [PDF]
Synthese, 2010 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Moritz Schulz
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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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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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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 +2 more
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Belarusian Modals of Necessity. A Corpus-Based Analysis
Studi Slavistici, 2023 The paper presents an analysis of standard Belarusian modals of necessity, based on the Belacorpus, a corpus of contemporary written Belarusian I built in 2010.
Lidia Federica Mazzitelli
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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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Grammatical and Pragmatic Aspects of Slovenian Modality in Socially Unacceptable Facebook Comments
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2023 This paper investigates the grammatical and pragmatic uses of epistemic and deontic modal expressions in a corpus of Slovenian socially acceptable and unacceptable Facebook comments.
Jakob Lenardič, Kristina Pahor de Maiti
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A Modal Logic of Epistemic Games [PDF]
Games, 2010 We propose some variants of a multi-modal of joint action, preference and knowledge that support reasoning about epistemic games in strategic form. The first part of the paper deals with games with complete information. We first provide syntactic proofs of some well-known theorems in the area of interactive epistemology that specify some sufficient ...
Emiliano Lorini +1 more
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Figuring Out Root and Epistemic Uses of Modals: The Role of the Input
Journal of Semantics, 2022 This paper investigates how children figure out that modals like must can be used to express both epistemic and “root” (i.e. non epistemic) flavors. The existing acquisition literature shows that children produce modals with epistemic meanings up to a ...
Annemarie van Dooren +3 more
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The use of English epistemic modality among ESL learners
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 The acquisition of expressions of epistemic modality or the probability system seems to be a problem to second language leamers of English. While expressing basic propositions is not too difficult, second language leamers of English appear to have ...
Subra Govindasamy
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