Marcus, Ruth Barcan
Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
Print publication date: 1995 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509657-6
doi:10.1093/0195096576.003.0014
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509657-6
doi:10.1093/0195096576.003.0014
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A Backward Look at Quine's Animadversions on Modalities
This paper reflects, in a loosely historical and personally reminiscent fashion, on Quine's animadversions on modalities, the debates they provoked, and some of its outcomes.
Keywords: Aristotelian essentialism, modalities, propositional modal logic, quantified modal logic, Quine, substitution failure
Keywords: Aristotelian essentialism, modalities, propositional modal logic, quantified modal logic, Quine, substitution failure
doi:10.1093/0195096576.003.0014
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