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A Two-Dimensional Semantics for Epistemic Modals
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2012 Not everyone knows that water is H2O. Suppose Alice is one of those people. Alice says: "For all I know, water might not be H2O." Intuitively it seems like Alice has spoken truly. That is, it seems like it is epistemically possible (for Alice) that water
Dan Quattrone
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Epistemic modals, deduction, and factivity: new insights from the epistemic future
, 2019 The 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 identical treatment is not ...
Teodora Mihoc +2 more
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Topoi, 2016 At the center of the debate between contextualist versus relativist semantics for epistemic modal claims is an empirical question about when competent subjects judge epistemic modal disagreement to be present. John MacFarlane’s relativist claims that we judge there to be epistemic modal disagreement across the widest range of cases.
Jonah Katz, Joe Salerno
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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1980 This descriptive study focuses on the special verbal category of Alsatian modal auxiliaries with distinct syntactic characteristics. They include:[kena] (can), [mesda] (would like to), [vela] (want to), [darfa] (be allowed to), [sola] (ought to/must ...
Hessini, Marguerite
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If they must, they will: Children overcommit to likeliness inferences from deontic modals
Glossa, 2022 Modal verbs like must express two distinct non-actual meanings: deontic (e.g. obligation) and epistemic (e.g. likelihood inference). How do young children understand these modals? What factors affect their interpretation as deontic or epistemic?
Ailís Cournane, Dunja Veselinović
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, 2020 This paper argues that we should assign certainty a central place in epistemology. While epistemic certainty played an important role in the history of epistemology, recent epistemology has tended to dismiss certainty as an unattainable ideal, focusing ...
Beddor, Bob
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Epistemic Modal Credence [PDF]
, 2020 Triviality results threaten plausible principles governing our credence in epistemic modal claims. This paper develops a new account of modal credence which avoids triviality. On the resulting theory, probabilities are assigned not to sets of worlds, but
Goldstein, Simon
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Disagreement Lost and Found [PDF]
, 2017 According to content-relativist theories of moral language, different speakers use the same moral sentences to say different things. Content-relativism faces a well-known problem of lost disagreement.
Finlay, Stephen
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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Cognitive LinguisticsThis psycholinguistic study investigates the effects of aspect (i.e., the grammatical distinction between progressive and simple) on the interpretation of English modals (epistemic versus deontic) with a view to gaining insights into the mental ...
Sazhumyan Haykanush +1 more
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