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The trouble with modal logic, according to its critics, is quantification into modal contexts — i.e. de re modality. For on the basis of such quantification, it is claimed, essentialism ensues, and perhaps a bloated universe of possibilia as well. The essentialism is avoidable, these critics will agree, but only by turning to a Platonic realm of individual concepts whose existence is no less dubious or problematic than mere possibilia. Moreover, basing one’s semantics on individual concepts, it is claimed, would in effect render all identity statements containing only proper names either necessarily true or necessarily false — i.e. there would then be no contingent identity statements containing only proper names.
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Cocchiarella, N.B. (1984). Philosophical Perspectives on Quantification in Tense and Modal Logic. In: Gabbay, D., Guenthner, F. (eds) Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Synthese Library, vol 165. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6259-0_6
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