Epistemic modality is a sub-type of linguistic modality that encompasses knowledge, belief, or credence in a proposition. Epistemic modality is exemplified...

Epistemic modal logic is a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge. While epistemology has a long philosophical tradition...

Agatha must be the murderer. (expressing epistemic modality) (2) Agatha must go to jail. (expressing deontic modality) The sentence in (1) might be spoken...

necessity ("must"), in terms of one of the following types of modality: epistemic modality, concerned with the theoretical possibility of propositions being...

more recent typological comparison is Aikhenvald (2004). Epistemic modality Linguistic modality Mirativity Egophoricity Grammatical mood Epistemology de...

concepts such as knowledge, obligation, and causation. For instance, in epistemic modal logic, the formula ◻ P {\displaystyle \Box P} can be used to represent...

impossibility. Alethic modality is often associated with epistemic modality in research, and it has been questioned whether this modality should be considered...

in use. Deontic modality expresses an ability, necessity, or obligation that is associated with an agent subject. Epistemic modality expresses the speaker's...

as a form of euphemism. Linguists consider hedges to be tools of epistemic modality; allowing speakers and writers to signal a level of caution in making...

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