Obligation and Aspect

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 59 (4):398-449 (2016)
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‘Fred must open the door’ concerns Fred’s obligations. This obligative meaning is turned off by adding aspect: ‘Fred must have opened/be opening/have been opening the door’ are one and all epistemic. Why? In a nutshell: obligative ’must’ operates on procedural contents of imperative sentences, epistemic ‘must’ on propositional contents of declarative sentences; and adding aspect converts procedural into propositional content.

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10.1080/0020174x.2015.1042037

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