The standard account of modal expressions in natural language analyzes them as quantifiers over a set of possible worlds determined by the evaluation world and an accessibility relation. A number of authors have recently argued for an alternative account according to which modals are analyzed as quantifying over a domain of possible worlds that is specified directly in the points of evaluation. But the new approach only handles the data motivating it if it is supplemented with a non-standard account of attitude verbs and conditionals. It can be shown the the relational account handles the same data equally well if it too is supplemented with a non-standard account of such expressions.
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Ninan, D. (2018). Relational Semantics and Domain Semantics for Epistemic Modals. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 47(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-016-9414-x
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