On the semantics and pragmatics of epistemic vocabulary
By Sarah Moss. 2015
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This paper motivates and develops a novel semantics for several epistemic expressions, including possibility and necessity modals and indicative conditionals. The semantics I defend constitutes an alternative to standard truth conditional theories, as it assigns sets of probability measures rather than sets of worlds as sentential semantic values. I argue that what my theory lacks in conservatism, it makes up for in strength — namely, the theory accounts for a host of distinctive and suggestive linguistic data collected and explored in this paper. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.8.5 BibTeX info
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy
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- Daniel Lassiter
- Anastasia Giannakidou
- Gennaro Chierchia
- Michael Israel
- David Adger
- Josep Quer
In Philosophy
Citations in the corpus
- The semantic roots of positive polarity: epistemic modal verbs and adverbs in English, Greek and Italian (2018, methodology): “In a recent paper, Moss (2015) considers phenomena under the label ‘nested epistemic vocabulary’.”
- Must, knowledge, and (in)directness (2016, result): “…of probability in the semantics of epistemic language more generally—a point made first by Yalcin (2005, 2007) and Swanson (2006), and reinforced in much subsequent work (e.g., Yalcin 2010, 2012a,b,c; Swanson 2010, 2015; Lassiter 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016; Moss 2013, 2015; Klecha 2012, 2014).”