Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Road to Selection Semantics
- Part III Developing Selection Semantics
- 6 Between Will and Might
- 7 Future Orientation
- 8 Neo-Stalnakerian Conditionals
- Part IV Assertion, Prediction, and the Future
- Part V Future Cognition and Epistemology: Some Themes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Between Will and Might
from Part III - Developing Selection Semantics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Background
- Part II The Road to Selection Semantics
- Part III Developing Selection Semantics
- 6 Between Will and Might
- 7 Future Orientation
- 8 Neo-Stalnakerian Conditionals
- Part IV Assertion, Prediction, and the Future
- Part V Future Cognition and Epistemology: Some Themes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 modifies the view of Chapter 5 in response to a variety of objections. This modified view can account for difficulties arising from the relation between will-claims and might-claims.
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- The Modal FutureA Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk, pp. 97 - 119Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021