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Summary: The second claim is about how epistemic modals interact with negation. Epistemic must is varied in how it is interpreted relative to negation. For example, it is interpreted above clause-mate negation, but below superordinate negation. In contrast, will is always interpreted above negation, regardless of the syntactic configuration it occurs in. These findings are relevant for two reasons: First, will seems to constitute a new class of polarity sensitive predicates that is distinct from those discussed previously in the literature. Specifically, I analyze it as a "strict" Neg-Raising Predicate (NRP). This provides new insight on the semantic status of the Excluded Middle inference which has been a topic of debate for traditional NRPs (Batsch 1973, Gajewski 2005, 2007, Romoli 2002, 2003, and Kriz 2015). Second, it adds to a typology of polarity sensitive modals (Iatridou and Zeijlstra 2013, Homer 2015).