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Modals and their Arguments

Description:

The philosophical literature on modals is dominated by the following paradigm: modals are modeled as quantifiers over sets of possible worlds. The diversity of modal “fla- vors” (e.g., epistemic, deontic, teleological interpretations of modals) is accommodated within the paradigm by logical mechanisms that allow extralinguistic factors to restrict the quantificational...

Keyword:

epistemic modality, deontic modality, context-sensitity, modals, aspect, and semantics

Subject:

Philosophy and Linguistics

Creator:

Skibra, Daniel

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15323 and etdadmin_upload_770188