Epistemic Modals
Epistemic Modals Are Assessment-Sensitive
... “epistemic modals,” I mean epistemic uses of modal words: adverbs like “necessarily,” “possibly,” and “probably,” adjectives like “necessary,” “possible,” and “probable,” and auxiliaries like ...
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Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study
... A&H propose that there is a fundamental semantic difference between classes of verbs that pattern with such phenomena as mood selection in Romance: representational vs. non-representational attitudes (Bolinger 1968 ...
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data
... for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist truth and/or relativist ...bare epistemic possibility claim true only if the prejacent is compatible with their ...for ...
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A study of proposition and modality focusing on epistemic modals in the Japanese language
... individual modals have been made to clarify their ...similar modals yōda and rashii remains ...how epistemic modals function (whether they express subjectivity or objectivity, and how ...
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On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
... That is also why Eric can say ( 27 ). The sentence ( 27 ) is intuitively inter- preted using just these same hypotheses about how much Liem likes wearing green. In shorthand: Eric gives almost all his credence to ...
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Neg-raising and positive polarity: The view from modals
... universal modals can be PPIs; but one needs to exercise caution, as other flavors of modals are yet to be looked at, in particular epistemic ...deontic modals are PPIs, witness have deon ...
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Modals in Arab EFL Learners' Composition: A Corpus based Approach
... the epistemic modals ‘may’, ‘might’, ‘would’, and ‘could’, are likely to be attributed to both learners’ general tendency and L1 rhetoric, where certainty-oriented and collectivistic-oriented styles ...
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Probability and implicatures: A unified account of the scalar effects of disjunction under modals
... for modals might be empirically and theoretically superior to a classical quantificational semantics (Swanson 2006 and Lassiter 2011 ; see also Swanson 2015 , Yalcin 2007 , 2010 , Lassiter 2014 , Moss 2015 a for ...
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View of Epistemic Harvest
... problem that is perceived as ‘surveillance’. Shifting the perspective from surveillance to- wards transactional data extraction/produc- tion in electronic databases shifts the think- ing around countering strategies, ...
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The epistemic province of photography
... There are a number of problems with this view. The foremost problem is the mystery around the necessity of e-information, which will prove to be problematic. In light of this, the following sections will show how ...
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Ethical and epistemic expressions
... another context, they will quickly appeal to or easily be led to the purpose relativity of the claims as a way to dispel the appearance of contradiction. However, it seems that if we accuse ordinary speakers of ...
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Mill's epistemic liberalism
... violations can justify legal coercion, but the liberty principle is expressly concerned with political and social coercion in all its forms: the liberty principle’s scope is “to govern [r] ...
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The epistemic value of rationality
... We also provide schematics of how information, beliefs, knowledge, actions, and purposes interact with and influence each other in order to achieve a specific goal.. Furthermore, ration,[r] ...
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The Epistemic Oppression of the Veil
... Why are we concerned about the epistemic oppression of the veil? In general, there are at least three prima facie reasons. Firstly, to understand the current politics in the Islamic world, we need to recognize the ...
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Are There Indefeasible Epistemic Rules?
... our epistemic duties do not seem to have the same power to remain even if ...your epistemic duty to believe things are as they appear to be? Surely ...
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Epistemic Actions as Resources
... modalities, epistemic modalities and ...dynamic epistemic logic and generalizes the BMS logic of [6] to non-Boolean settings, while capturing the same concepts, and enriches it with a logical account of ...
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Epistemic Theories of Objective Chance
... actually epistemic, and determined for example by symmetries in the causal context, then would it not be possible in principle to derive a priori the actual physical probabilities that exist in real experiments? ...
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Stance Empiricism and Epistemic Reason
... Central aspects of van Fraassen’s empirical stance, like rejection of inference to the best explanation and of explanation by posit, are straightforwardly rejections of epistemic rules. Admiration for science, ...
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The Epistemic Practice of Networked Learning
... their epistemic beliefs in what they write but also in what they attempt to do in their practice – both as participants at the conference and in their own situated teaching and learning ...
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The Epistemic Value of Deep Disagreements
... are epistemic benefits in the offing if she contin- ues to believe ...agents’ epistemic preferences ...are epistemic benefits in the offing from the existence of framework ...
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