CIA Leaks
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Author(s)
Gillies, Anthony S.
von Fintel, Kai
Date Issued
January 2008
Journal
Philosophical Review
Publisher
Duke University Press
Citation
von Fintel, Kai, and Anthony S. Gillies. “CIA Leaks.” Philosophical Review 117.1 (2008): 77-98.
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Final published version
Abstract
Epistemic modals are standardly taken to be context-dependent quantifiers over possibilities. Thus sentences containing them get truth-values with respect to both a context and an index. But some insist that this relativization is not relative enough: `might'-claims, they say, only get truth-values with respect to contexts, indices, and—the new wrinkle—points of assessment (hence, CIA). Here we argue against such "relativist" semantics. We begin with a sketch of the motivation for such theories and a generic formulation of them. Then we catalogue central problems that any such theory faces. We end by outlining an alternative story.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2007-025
