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Mind 2007 116(464):983-1026; doi:10.1093/mind/fzm983
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© Yalcin 2007

Epistemic Modals

Seth Yalcin

Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 32-D940, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA yalcin{at}mit.edu


  Abstract

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 consequence are investigated. The semantics is then extended to probability operators. Some problems and prospects for probabilistic representations of content and context are explored.


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