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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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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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A contrastive analysis of modality between english and behdini-kurdish
گۆڤارا زانستێن مرۆڤایەتی یا زانكۆیا زاخۆ, 2023 The current study intends to conduct a comparative analysis of modality in English and Behdini-Kurdish. Modality is a linguistic category pertaining to expressing possibility and necessity, among other meanings.
Yousra Hasso, Shivan Toma
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, 2019 This paper presents a puzzle involving embedded attitude reports. We resolve the puzzle by arguing that attitude verbs take restricted readings: in some environments the denotation of attitude verbs can be restricted by a given proposition.
Blumberg, Kyle, Holguín, Ben
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
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Interpreting past epistemic modals in English, Dutch, and French
GlossaAccording to many authors (Cinque 1999, Hacquard 2006, a.o.), epistemic modals in sentences such as “It had to be raining last night” always scope over past tense, expressing a present epistemic claim about a past event. However, there is no consensus on
Annemarie van Dooren, Anouk Dieuleveut
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Contextualism and Knowledge Norms [PDF]
, 2017 I provide an opinionated overview of the literature on the relationship of contextualism to knowledge norms for action, assertion, and belief. I point out that contextualists about ‘knows’ are precluded from accepting the simplest versions of knowledge ...
Worsnip, Alex
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Metanormative Theory and the Meaning of Deontic Modals [PDF]
, 2016 Philosophical debate about the meaning of normative terms has long been pulled in two directions by the apparently competing ideas: (i) ‘ought’s do not describe what is actually the case but rather prescribe possible action, thought, or feeling, (ii) all
Chrisman, Matthew
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