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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’.
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Thomason, R.H. (2007). Three Interactions Between Context and Epistemic Locutions. In: Kokinov, B., Richardson, D.C., Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Vieu, L. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4635. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74255-5_35
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