On Scope Relations between Quantifiers and Epistemic Modals  

Oleh:

Swanson, Eric

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 27 no. 4 (Nov. 2010), page 529–540.
Topik: Quantifiers; Epistemic Modals
Fulltext: vol 27, no 4, p 529-540.pdf (101.63KB)

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This article presents and discusses a range of counterexamples to the common view that quantifiers cannot take scope over epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for ‘force modifier’ theories of epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for Robert Stalnaker’s theory of counterfactuals, according to which a special kind of epistemic modal must be able to scope over a whole counterfactual. Finally, some of the counterexamples suggest that David Lewis must countenance ‘would’ counterfactuals in which a covert ‘would’ scopes over the whole consequent of the counterfactual, including an overt ‘might’.

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