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I feel honored to have been asked to write the concluding essay to this volume. I was in fact asked to comment on and discuss the implications of all the contributions to this volume, and all the discussions at the conference on modal interpretations held in Utrecht in June of 1996. But I have not adhered exactly to the task given. Rather than comment on each contribution individually I have given myself the liberty to expound on four themes that collectively cover most of the subjects discussed at the conference and in this volume, while only occasionally commenting on specific contributions.
I would like to thank Dennis Dieks and Pieter Vermaas for comments on a draft of this paper, and David Albert and Laura Ruetsche for comments on an earlier draft of the first two sections of this paper.
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Arntzenius, F. (1998). Curiouser and Curiouser: A Personal Evaluation of Modal Interpretations. In: Dieks, D., Vermaas, P.E. (eds) The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5084-2_16
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