Timeline for could someone give some simpler explanation about the meaning of "epistemic", difference between epistemic and predictive?
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| Feb 25, 2020 at 21:02 | vote | accept | JJJohn | ||
| Feb 25, 2020 at 13:39 | comment | added | Jacob | @JJJohn Not exactly. Another way to say it might be "I don't believe that it rained yesterday." "Doubt" implies that the speaker doesn't trust the source of information; "guess" implies that the speaker doesn't know the information at all (or knows very little). "I guess [that] it rained yesterday" would be another example of epistemic modality, though. | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | JJJohn | Thank you. In your example, are "doubt" and "guess" interchangeable? | |
| Feb 24, 2020 at 18:35 | history | answered | Jacob | CC BY-SA 4.0 |