late Middle English 6 Changes in the deontic necessity system from Early Modern English to
(1) Deontic (=related to duties): The kids must go to sleep at 10pm. (2) Epistemic (=related to knowledge): It must be raining outside. (3) Bouletic (=related to desires): Obama must be our president! (4) Teleological (=related to goals, often expressed with an infinitive): You must take a plane to...
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| Summary: | (1) Deontic (=related to duties): The kids must go to sleep at 10pm. (2) Epistemic (=related to knowledge): It must be raining outside. (3) Bouletic (=related to desires): Obama must be our president! (4) Teleological (=related to goals, often expressed with an infinitive): You must take a plane to get to the Polar Bear Provincial Park. (5) Metaphysical/circumstantial: Everyone must die. Igor Yanovich (MIT) must between possible and necessary Sep 28, 2012 3 / 73Formal semantics of modality Different modal flavors: Kratzer’s framework Possible worlds ≈ ways the world could be. A modal base is a set of possible worlds satisfying some conditions. E.g., the set of all worlds where the rules of our world are followed. |
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