Epistemicism and modality

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Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani. (2016). Epistemicism and modality. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 46(4-5), pp. 803 - 835. https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2016.1201878

Authors	Yli-Vakkuri, Juhani
Abstract	What kind of semantics should someone who accepts the epistemicist theory of vagueness defended in Timothy Williamson's Vagueness (1994) give a definiteness operator? To impose some interesting constraints on acceptable answers to this question, I will assume that the object language also contains a metaphysical necessity operator and a metaphysical actuality operator. I will suggest that the answer is to be found by working within a three-dimensional model theory. I will provide sketches of two ways of extracting an epistemicist semantics from that model theory, one of which I will find to be more plausible than the other.
Keywords	vagueness; modality; epistemicism; Timothy Williamson
Year	2016
Journal	Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Journal citation	46 (4-5), pp. 803 - 835
Publisher	Routledge
ISSN	0045-5091
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2016.1201878
Scopus EID	2-s2.0-84988504901
Page range	803 - 835
Research Group	Dianoia Institute of Philosophy
Publisher's version	File Access Level Controlled
Place of publication	United Kingdom

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