Nonfactualism about epistemic modality
In Andy Egan & Brian Weatherson (eds.),
Epistemic Modality. Oxford University Press (
2011)
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Abstract
When I tell you that it’s raining, I describe a way the world is—viz., rainy. I say something whose truth turns on how things are with the weather in the world. Likewise when I tell you that the weatherman thinks that it’s raining. Here the truth of what I say turns on how things are with the weatherman’s state of mind in the world. Likewise when I tell you that I think that it’s raining. Here the truth of what I say turns on how things are with my state of mind in the world.