The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialog

This volume is a collection of 18 papers on the communication of certainty and uncertainty. The first part introduces recent theoretical developments and genera

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