Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2016
Andy Demfree Yu
Pages 134-146
Epistemic Modals and Sensitivity to Contextually-Salient Partitions
Expressivists and relativists about epistemic modals often motivate their view by arguing against contextualist treatments of certain cases. However, I argue that even expressivists and relativists should consider being a kind of contextualist. Specifically, data involving mixed disjunctions motivate taking epistemic modals to be sensitive to contextually-salient partitions, and thus context-sensitive.