Three interactions between context and epistemic locutions

  • Authors:

  • Richmond H. Thomason

  • Affiliations:

  • Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT'07 Proceedings of the 6th international and interdisciplinary conference on Modeling and using context
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

I motivate and formalize three interactions between context and epistemic modalities, discussing (1) the effects of temporal perspective on knowledge of the future, (2) the effects of perceived risk on belief, and (3) the effects of presupposed background information on epistemic 'might'.