On epistemic and deontic grounding

The cognitive analysis of the grounding predication has had a marked tendency to shift to the epistemic side of the phenomenon - to the extent that the grounding predication as a whole is now often referred to as epistemic grounding. This paper proposes to investigate the reasons for this shift, see...

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Published in:Argumentum 2019-01, Vol.15, p.304-315
Main Author: Pelyvás, Péter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive grammar
Linguistics
Semantics
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Summary:The cognitive analysis of the grounding predication has had a marked tendency to shift to the epistemic side of the phenomenon - to the extent that the grounding predication as a whole is now often referred to as epistemic grounding. This paper proposes to investigate the reasons for this shift, seen as rooted in the history of the research and the nature of the phenomena involved, to draw a dividing line between the epistemic and the deontic components of the grounding predication and to show that the deontic component, although in a sense subordinate to, and in many ways different from the epistemic side, is nevertheless rightfully considered to be an independent part of the grounding predication.
ISSN:1787-3606
1787-3606