Seth Yalcin, UC Berkeley
Thursday, November 14th at 4pm in Humanities One - room 210
Epistemic Modality De Re
I describe some new puzzles about the interaction of epistemic modality with quantification. I offer to dissolve the puzzles using a nonstandard kind of situation semantics. On the theory I develop, possibilities are partial, and quantification involves tacit modality.
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