Modality, Weights and Inconsistent Premise Sets
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Modality, Weights and Inconsistent Premise Sets
It is a commonplace that some of our desires are stronger than others; that certain values and norms are more important than others; and that states of affairs can bemore likely than others. Some authors have claimed that the classic premise semantics for modals in linguistic semantics fails to capture how the truth-conditions of modal sentences can be sensitive to such differences in strength ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Semantics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0167-5133,1477-4593
DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffx014