'Might' Made Right

Epistemic Modality

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fintel, Kai Von ^a   Gillies, Anthony S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextual indeterminacy; Contextualism; Epistemic modals; Information states

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921665845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199591596.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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