pseudomonas.livejournal.com ([identity profile] pseudomonas.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] simont 2010-08-11 02:08 pm (UTC)

There's a whole load of the type 2 things, if memory serves they're epistemic(expressing a belief) vs deontic (expressing a desire or an order). I'm not sure to what extent it's a feature of the language that things are so consistently dual-purposed.

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