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Epistemic Qualification

Epistemic Qualification

An epistemic qualification is a signal of the degree of certainty the speaker has for the proposition expressed by his or her utterance .

(English)

Here are some examples of epistemic qualifications:

  • Expressions of epistemic modality
  • certainly
  • hope
  • know
  • perhaps
  • think
Page/s: 87–88
Source: Caton 1981

Caton, Charles E. 1981. "Stalnaker on pragmatic presupposition." In Cole, P. 1981 83–100.

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