Epistemic Contradictions Do Not Threaten Classical Logic

Abstract Epistemic contradictions are now a well-known and often discussed phenomenon among those who study epistemic modals. These expressed by sentences like ‘It is raining it might not be raining’ whose oddness to the common ear demands an explanation. However, has turned out rather controversial enterprise provide such explanation in sufficiently precise general manner. According pragmatic explanations, semantically consistent but pragmatically defective. semantic one should regard as plain inconsistencies. Endorsing solution is, however, tantamount rejecting classical logic, which predicts consistency of contradictions. After arguing that all existing solutions this problem face yet unmet challenges, I will present new adequately overcomes these challenges. propose view epistemically defective sentences. The main thesis emerging we need neither abandon inference rules logic nor truth-conditional approach semantics deal with