Ignorance, Introspection, and Epistemic Modals

Embedded epistemic modals are infelicitous under desire predicates when they are anchored to the belief state of the attitude holder (see, esp., Anand & Hacquard 2013 ). We present two ways of deriving this observation from an inde- pendently motivated property of desire predicates ( Heim 1992 ; von Fintel 1999 ).