Epistemic Meaning (Repost)
Kasper Boye, "Epistemic Meaning"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 311020438X | PDF | pages: 392 | 2.2 mb
English | 2012 | ISBN: 311020438X | PDF | pages: 392 | 2.2 mb
This book deals with epistemic expressions: the linguistic means we have for expressing our degree of certainty about and our type of evidence for propositions about the world. It presents a cross-linguistic study of such expressions and demonstrates that they behave in a way that can be described in terms of a coherent but complex meaning domain. In order to account for this behaviour the book proposes to analyse epistemic meaning in terms of a coherent but complex cognitive structure which is bound up with our cognitive capacity for relating our conception of the world to the world.