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Now there will be trouble

Giuseppe Spolaore
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Fabio Del Prete

Résumé

We consider sentences in which " now " occurs in initial position and show that the meaning they convey differs from the meaning of sentences that are otherwise identical except for " now " occurring in final position. We argue that the occurrence of " now " in initial position triggers a particular kind of modal reading for the sentence to which the adverb is prefixed. A general notion of modal forcing is proposed to provide a uniform account of this kind of reading. Armed with this account, we offer a solution to two tense-modal puzzles, which have to do with fatalism and the possibility of a changing past.
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hal-01810860 , version 1 (08-06-2018)
hal-01810860 , version 2 (04-06-2019)

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  • HAL Id : hal-01810860 , version 2

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Giuseppe Spolaore, Fabio Del Prete. Now there will be trouble. Patrick Blackburn, Per Hasle and Peter Øhrstrøm. Logic and Philosophy of Time: Further Themes from Prior, Vol. 2, Aalborg Universitetsforlag, pp.127-143, 2019, Logic and Philosophy of Time: Further Themes from Prior, Vol. 2, 978-87-7210-265-8. ⟨hal-01810860v2⟩
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