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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Main Author:	Utz, Konrad
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Brill 2025
Subjects:	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
Online Access:	ONIX_20250228_9783969753316_54
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