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Modality, Scope and Qualification

Karla Juárez Spanish

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Modality
- A cluster of meanings
- Two clases
  - Epistemic
    - Knowledge and understanding
  - Deontic
    - Obligation situations and permissible
      - Ex. duty, moralty, laws and rules
- Modal and tense
  - Would, could, might and should
    - Past tense and future
      - Will
- Core modal meanings
  - Necessity and Possibility
    - P___ be true
      - Must, has to, will
        Factual propositions
      - Should, ought to
        Norms
        Necessity modal
      - May, might
        Factual propositions
      - Can
        Factual propositions
  - Paraphrase
    - Sameness of sentence meaning
  - Presuppositions
    - Propositions that form the context
Relative scope
- Sentences affected by negation and modality
  - Operator
    - Different meanings
Quantifiers
- Positive
  - All, some and most
- Negative
  - None
- Connected with modality
- Sentences
  - True or false
    - Depending on the number of individuals
- Two types
  - Proportional
    - Don't exhibit symmetry
      - Only the number in the intersection need to be taken into account
  - Cardinal
    - Nouns can change without truth or falsity being affected
- Cardinality
  - Represents the number of elements in set

Description: Mind Map on Modality, Scope and Qualification, created by Karla Juárez on 02/04/2017.
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