Epistemic modals and informational consequence
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Epistemic Modals and Informational Consequence
Recently, Yalcin (2007) put forward a novel account of epistemic modals. It is based on the observation that sentences of the form ‘φ& Might¬φ’ do not embed under ‘suppose’ and ‘if’. Yalcin concludes that such sentences must be contradictory and develops a notion of informational consequence which validates this idea. I will show that informational consequence is inadequate as an account of the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9461-8