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    Challenges→Relativism about epistemic modals holds that propositions can differ in truth-value relative to contexts of assessment in addition to worlds and possibly times.

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

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    • 1.Informational semantics grounds modal truth in agent knowledge states, naturally explaining why 'might' and 'must' shift with supposition without added machinery.
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    • 2.Assessment-relative truth requires context-shifting mechanisms that complicate compositional semantics; information-state accounts integrate modals into standard logical frameworks.
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    • 3.Yalcin's approach predicts embedding asymmetries (modals resist certain embeddings) from semantic principles alone, whereas assessment-relativity leaves this stipulated.
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    • 1.Informational semantics struggles with cases where epistemic modals embed under attitudes: 'John believes it might rain' resists reduction to speaker's information alone.
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    • 2.Suppose-embeddings require updating shared information context, but Yalcin's framework doesn't clearly distinguish individual from collective epistemic states under supposition.
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    • 3.Some epistemic judgments seem genuinely assessment-relative (same sentence, different speakers, different truth-values) in ways information states alone don't capture.
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