PNB 2XB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oatmeal

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
• Course: PNB 2XB3
• Professor: Daniel Goldreich

Document Summary

It could be anything because conversational background is only encoded contextually. Modal force: possibility. deondic= she may go to grad school as in she got accepted epistemic= as in it is a possibility that she might be going: ghould- necessity and deondic conversational background. Bhould-possibility and epistemic conversational background: mary ghould dance with bruno. Necessity: all worlds within the relevant set of possible worlds. Bruno brought mary as her dance partner to a square dance. There is a dance that happens at this event and couples dance and the rules require them to dance together: mary bhould dance with bruno. Possibility: some world or another within the relevant set of possible world. It is a possibility that mary would dance with bruno because he is one of the guys at the event. But mary can also dance with tom or sam. Ghould and bhould, on the other hand encode both: determine aspectual class, doubt= state.