Epistemic Modals and Informational Consequence
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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 logic of epistemic modals: it cannot deal with reasoning from uncertain premises. Finally, I offer an alternative way of explaining the relevant linguistic data.
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