LING 3505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Volkswagen Beetle, Epistemic Modality
30 May 2016
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(a third world war started in the 60s) A sentence, especially one out of context, can have different readings. If something is epistemic, then it would also be logical. Deontic modality: we consider all possible worlds of perfect obedience. Epistemic modality: we consider all epistemically possible worlds p,q: variable for propositions x,y,z: variable for individuals. P,q,: variable for predicates w: variable for possible worlds. (bachelors are unmarried) w ( bachelors are unmarried is true in w) (tim left) w ( tim left is true in w) Deontic wpo (p is true in wpo) Deontic (sara leaves) wpo ( sara leaves is true in wpo) Epistemic (vw beetle is broken) we ( vw beetle is broken is true in we) P w (p is true in w) ~ ~p ~ w (~p is true in w)
