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Temporalizing Modal Epistemic Logic

2013
Timed Modal Epistemic Logic, tMEL, is a newly introduced logical framework for reasoning about the modeled agent’s knowledge. The framework, derived from the study of Justification Logic, is adapted from the traditional Modal Epistemic Logic, MEL, to serve as a logically non-omniscient epistemic logic and dealing with problems where the temporal ...
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Dynamics of Epistemic Modality

The Philosophical Review, 2013
A dynamic semantics for epistemically modalized sentences is an attractive alternative to the orthodox view that our best theory of meaning ascribes to such sentences truth-conditions relative to what is known. This essay demonstrates that a dynamic theory about might and must offers elegant explanations of a range of puzzling observations about ...
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Epistemic Modality

2005
This volume offers an original theoretical and methodological approach to the hotly debated issue of epistemic modality. The analysis is conducted in a rigorous typological frame developed after a careful consideration of a wealth of cross-linguistic data, and focuses on Italian, a language often disregarded in comparative analyses.
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Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality

2023
Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality: Conceptual and Descriptive Issues presents ground-breaking research on the domains of evidentiality and epistemic modality. The book includes papers on key theoretical issues (the nature of evidential inference and the challengeability criterion for evidentiality), and descriptive studies covering various European ...
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The Expression of Epistemic Modality

2014
This chapter provides an overview of how epistemic modal meanings are expressed in the languages of the world. It first presents a survey of different types of epistemic modal expressions. Then some examples of morphosyntactic systems of epistemic modality are given.
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Evidentials and Epistemic Modality

2018
AbstractThis chapter deals with the relation between the notional domains of information source and epistemic modality. It surveys various approaches to this relation and the cross-linguistic patterns of the way in which linguistic units (of diverse formats) with evidential or epistemic meanings develop extensions whereby they encroach into each other ...
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Introduction: Epistemic Modals and Epistemic Modality

2011
Brian Weatherson, Andy Egan
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Epistemic Modals

Mind, 2007
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Epistemic Modality

The Philosophical Review, 2013
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Fallibilism and the flexibility of epistemic modals

Philosophical Studies, 2013
Charity Anderson
exaly