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- Title
Representing multiply de re epistemic modal statements.
- Authors
Şişkolar, Cem
- Abstract
I review Ninan's Hundred Tickets case pertaining to quantification into epistemic modal contexts, and his counterpart theoretic way to address it (Ninan, Philos Rev, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6973010). Ninan's solution employs a 'counterpart relation' parameter intended to reflect how the domain of quantification is thought of in a context. This approach theoretically rules out the possibility of contexts where different ways of thinking about the domain can be deployed through different quantificational noun phrases. I bring out the case of the multiply de re modal statement Any ticket in photo #2 might be any ticket in photo #1 to challenge Ninan's approach. I propose a different approach adapting a more complex 'counterpart relation' parameter due to Rabern (Inquiry, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2018.1470568). I attempt to flesh it out by relating it to a finer grained notion of epistemic possibility involving assignments to discourse referents. My approach can account for the aforementioned multiply de re statement, as well as address the Hundred Tickets case.
- Subjects
MODAL logic; EPISTEMIC logic; NOUN phrases (Grammar); DISCOURSE; NOMINALS (Grammar)
- Publication
Linguistics & Philosophy, 2024, Vol 47, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0165-0157
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10988-023-09394-1