An Opinionated Guide to Epistemic Modality

Kai von Fintel, Anthony S. Gillies

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Abstract

Epistemic modals are interesting in part because their semantics is bound up both with our information about the world and with how that information changes as we share what we know. Given that epistemic modals are dependent in some way on the information available in the contexts in which they are used, it's not surprising that there is a minor but growing industry of work in semantics and the philosophy of language concerned with the precise nature of the context-dependency of epistemically modalized sentences.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOxford Studies in Epistemology
Subtitle of host publicationVolume 2
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages32-62
Number of pages31
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)9781383037005
ISBN (Print)9780199237067
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

Keywords

  • context-dependency
  • information
  • information semantics
  • modalized

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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