Epistemics with Attitude

Embedding epistemic modals in English: A corpus-based study

The question of whether epistemic modals contribute to the truth conditions of the sentences they appear in is a matter of active debate in the literature. Fueling this debate is the lack of consensus about the extent to which epistemics can appear in the scope of other operators. This corpus study investigates the distribution of epistemics in naturalistic data. Our results indicate that they ...

Lay Health Epistemics and Motivated Information Behaviors

This study examines relationships among health information orientation, situational perceptual frames, and active information behaviors pertinent to the safety controversy of genetically-modified (GM) food technology. A web survey was conducted in the US (N = 393). Based on our findings, an integrative model of Kim and Grunig’s (2011) Situational Theory of Problem Solving (STOPS) and Dutta-Berg...

Political Epistemics : The Secret Police , the Opposition , and the End of East German Socialism by Andreas Glaeser

Fuzziness and Approximate Reasoning - Epistemics on Uncertainty, Expectation and Risk in Rational Behavior

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Aspects of Modality

It is a cross-linguistically robust fact that the same modal auxiliaries come in different flavors: epistemic, deontic, ability, teleological... This fact is neatly captured in a system where each modal has a single lexical entry, where the difference in flavor comes from contextuallyprovided accessibility relations (cf. Lewis 1973, Kratzer 1981). Equally robust, however, are the phenomena that...