Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 487-525

  Stephenson, Tamina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude reports; Context dependency; Epistemic modals; Predicates of personal taste; Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 41349113131     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-008-9023-4     Document Type: Article

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