Modal Pragmatics

Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not Jewish; no US-president ever was”; “The rooks cannot move diagonally”; “It is s...

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description Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not Jewish; no US-president ever was”; “The rooks cannot move diagonally”; “It is still possible for you to catch the train”; “I am necessarily only in one place at a time”; “Peter will inevitably die; there is no antidote to the venom of the snake that bit him”. These differences are not sufficiently explained by distinctions between different types of modalities like alethic and deontic, or by different bases of evaluation like the speaker’s knowledge or an object’s history. They can, however, be clarified and more systematically defined by establishing a new field of modal differentiation, which we may call “modal pragmatics”. Apart from analyzing ordinary language, this may be helpful in formulating ontological theses.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1533662025-07-30T08:59:49Z Modal Pragmatics Utz, Konrad Formal necessity conditioned necessity essentialism facticity happenstance material necessity necessity de re ordinary language time thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Modal Pragmatics analyzes and systematizes differences among our uses of modal expressions in ordinary language which have not been adequately explained elsewhere. We say such things as: “By necessity, John Tylor was not Jewish; no US-president ever was”; “The rooks cannot move diagonally”; “It is still possible for you to catch the train”; “I am necessarily only in one place at a time”; “Peter will inevitably die; there is no antidote to the venom of the snake that bit him”. These differences are not sufficiently explained by distinctions between different types of modalities like alethic and deontic, or by different bases of evaluation like the speaker’s knowledge or an object’s history. They can, however, be clarified and more systematically defined by establishing a new field of modal differentiation, which we may call “modal pragmatics”. Apart from analyzing ordinary language, this may be helpful in formulating ontological theses. 2025-03-01T04:01:54Z 2025-03-01T04:01:54Z 2025-02-28T15:49:11Z 2024 book ONIX_20250228_9783969753316_54 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99068 9783969753316 9783957433312 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153366 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/99068/1/9783969753316_webready_content_text.pdf Brill mentis 10.30965/9783969753316 10.30965/9783969753316 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9783969753316 9783957433312 mentis 120 open access
spellingShingle Formal necessity
conditioned necessity
essentialism
facticity
happenstance
material necessity
necessity de re
ordinary language
time
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
Utz, Konrad
Modal Pragmatics
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conditioned necessity
essentialism
facticity
happenstance
material necessity
necessity de re
ordinary language
time
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
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conditioned necessity
essentialism
facticity
happenstance
material necessity
necessity de re
ordinary language
time
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thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTJ Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology
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