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A Critique of Quine’s Critique of de re Modality

January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

In the following lines (pdf-version) I will show that Quines critique on de re modality offered in §41 of his “Word and Object” is not substantial. He gives the following scenario:

[(i)] Mathematicians may conceivably be said to be [...]

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