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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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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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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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Epistemic-Modal Bridge Principles

2023
Abstract This chapter defends the modified new fact thesis and related epistemic-modal bridge principles from objections due to Howell and Goff. It is argued that Howell’s objections and some of Goff’s fall prey to arguments presented above, in Chapter 7.
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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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Embedded Epistemic Modals Pragmatically

2019
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 23 No 2 (2019): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
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Children's on-line processing of epistemic modals*

Journal of Child Language, 2016
V. Moscati, Likan Zhan, Peng Zhou
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Introduction: Epistemic Modals and Epistemic Modality

2011
Brian Weatherson, Andy Egan
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On a Shared Property of Deontic and Epistemic Modals

, 2016
J. Rett
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Contextualism about Epistemic Modals

, 2017
J. Dowell
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