Explore: Epistemic Modality

Epistemic modality is a sub-type of linguistic modality that encompasses knowledge, belief, or credence in a proposition. Epistemic modality is exemplified

Agatha must be the murderer. (expressing epistemic modality) (2) Agatha must go to jail. (expressing deontic modality) The sentence in (1) might be spoken

more recent typological comparison is Aikhenvald (2004). Epistemic modality Linguistic modality Mirativity Egophoricity Grammatical mood Epistemology de

Epistemic modal logic is a subfield of modal logic that is concerned with reasoning about knowledge. While epistemology has a long philosophical tradition

concepts such as knowledge, obligation, and causation. For instance, in epistemic modal logic, the formula ◻ P {\displaystyle \Box P} can be used to represent

in use. Deontic modality expresses an ability, necessity, or obligation that is associated with an agent subject. Epistemic modality expresses the speaker's

necessity ("must"), in terms of one of the following types of modality: epistemic modality, concerned with the theoretical possibility of propositions being

Manfred (2009). "Modality and the history of English adhortatives". In Salkie, Raphael; Busuttil, Pierre; van der Auwera, Johan (eds.). Modality in English:

impossibility. Alethic modality is often associated with epistemic modality in research, and it has been questioned whether this modality should be considered

Deontic modality (abbreviated DEO) is a linguistic modality that indicates how the world ought to be according to certain norms, expectations, speaker