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    Supports→Yalcin's informational semantics explains the logical behavior of epistemic modals—including embedding under 'suppose'—without invoking assessment-relative truth.

    Assessment-relative truth requires context-shifting mechanisms that complicate compositional semantics; information-state accounts integrate modals into standard logical frameworks.

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    Assessment-relative truth(as used in logic and semantics)
    The idea that whether a statement is true or false might depend on who is evaluating it or what context they're in, rather than being true or false for everyone in the same way.
    Context-shifting mechanisms(as used in linguistics and philosophy of language)
    Tools or rules that allow the meaning of words or statements to change depending on the situation or perspective being considered.
    Information-state accounts(as used in semantics and pragmatics)
    Theories that explain how language works by thinking about what information a speaker has or assumes at any given moment in a conversation.
    Logical frameworks(as used in philosophy and mathematics)
    Formal systems or sets of rules used to analyze arguments and determine what conclusions follow from given statements.

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    Modals(in language and logic)
    Words that express possibility, necessity, or obligation—like 'can,' 'must,' 'might,' 'should,' and 'could.'
    compositional semantics(Contrasted with holistic semantics in debates about meaning holism)
    A semantics in which the meanings of complex expressions can be determined solely from the meanings of their component parts

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