Comments on Hintikka’s Paper

Abstract

Professor Hintikka in his highly suggestive paper made a good case for the possible fruitful application of modal logic and semantics of possible worlds to contemporary linguists’ studies of language. Hintikka made his point by offering a clear critique of linguists’ claims and then providing ways of dealing with issues at hand from the point of view of logical semantical theory. Now the purpose of my comments here is not intended to make a defense of any linguists’ view or to advance their views in a better context, but on the contrary, to lay bare certain fundamental problems in the interpretation of the possible-worlds semantical approach and to suggest possible lines of solution.