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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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The epistemology of modality and the problem of modal epistemic friction [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 AbstractThere are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained attention over the past 20 years (1998–2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory, and deduction-theory. In this paper we argue that all three face what we callthe problem of modal epistemic friction(PMEF).
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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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Existential Belief and Epistemic Modals
, 2022 The thesis, based on Močnik (2019a,b,c), proposes a new semantics for epistemic modals and doxastic attitudes, based on the behaviour of epistemic modals embedded under doxastic attitudes.
Močnik, Maša
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Epistemic Modals and Alternative Possibilities
, 2020 Indicative judgments pertain to what is true. Epistemic modal judgments pertain to what must or might be true relative to a body of information. A standard view is that epistemic modals implicitly quantify over alternative possibilities, or ways things ...
John Turri
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Ignorance, introspection, and epistemic modals
, 2020 Embedded epistemic modals are infelicitous under desire predicates when they are anchored to the belief state of the attitude holder. We present two ways of deriving this observation from an independently motivated property of desire predicates, their ...
Trinh, Tue, Crnič, Luka
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Epistemic modals in early Modern English history texts. Analysis of gender variation
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2018 In the present study, samples of late Modern English scientific texts have been analysed to evaluate cases of epistemic modality as realised by modal verbs.
Francisco J. Álvarez Gil
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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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Modal-epistemic variants of Shapiro's system of epistemic arithmetic. [PDF]
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 1994 Shapiro's Epistemic Arithmetic, EA, adds an operator, \(K\), to classical first-order arithmetic; this operator, interpreted informally as `is provable in principle', has an S4-like (Barcan-free) modal structure. First-order Heyting arithmetic, HA, can then be translated naturally into EA so that a formula \(A\) is provable in HA iff its translation is
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Fallibilism and the flexibility of epistemic modals
, 2014 It is widely acknowledged that epistemic modals admit of inter-subjective flexibility. This paper introduces intra-subjective flexibility for epistemic modals and draws on this flexibility to argue that fallibilism is consistent with the standard account
Anderson, C, Anderson, Charity
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