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Epistemic Modals
Epistemic modal operators give rise to something very like, but also very unlike, Moore’s paradox. I set out the puzzling phenomena, explain why a standard relational semantics for these operators cannot handle them, and recommend an alternative semantics. A pragmatics appropriate to the semantics is developed and interactions between the semantics, the pragmatics, and the definition of consequ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language and Dialogue
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2210-4119,2210-4127
DOI: 10.1075/ld.3.3.05vec