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 language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Oxford Studies in Epistemology |
Subtitle of host publication | Volume 2 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 32-62 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Volume | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781383037005 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780199237067 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2024 |
Keywords
- context-dependency
- information
- information semantics
- modalized
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities