Modality as a metalinguistic predicate

Philosophical Studies 41 (2):153 - 159 (1982)
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Philosophers generally use the idea of necessity in two ways. One way of looking at necessity is to construe it as a sentential operator. Necessity would operate on sentences in much the same way that the sentential operator of..

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Modality as many metalinguistic predicates.Allen Hazen - 1984 - Philosophical Studies 46 (2):271 - 277.

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