Epistemic modals, relativism and assertion

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2007

Authors

Egan, Andy

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Kluwer Academic Publishers

Abstract

I think that there are good reasons to adopt a relativist semantics for epistemic modal claims such as ''the treasure might be under the palm tree'', according to which such utterances determine a truth value relative to something finer-grained than just

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Keywords: Assertion; Epistemic; Might; Modal; Relativism; Relativist; Self-locating; Self-location

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Philosophical Studies

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Journal article

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2037-12-31