An Object-Based Tuthmaker Semantics for Modals
Friederike Moltmann
February 2020 

This paper develops a new semantics of modals motivated by a greater range of linguistically reflected intuitions than generally taken account. The semantics is based on modal objects and their satisfiers and violators, rather than possible worlds.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/004094 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Philosophical Issues 'Philosophy of Logic and Inferential Reasoning', edited by C.F. Juhl and J. Schechter, 2018
keywords:	modals, deontic modality, truthaker semantics, situations, semantics
previous versions:	v1 [July 2018]
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