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Since Professor Vuillemin has studied several aspects of the thought of Bertrand Russell, it is perhaps appropriate here to juxtapose a program for metalinguistic interpretation of modality considered by Quine with a much more sweeping metalinguistic program earlier advocated by Russell.
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in “Three Grades of Modal Involvement”.
I discuss this in some detail in “Mates Quantification and Intensional Logic”. The reader may also want to compare the treatments of quantification in Bencivenga, Lambert and van Fraassen (1986); Lambert and van Fraassen (1972); and Scott (1970).
Compare Montague (1960) on this point.
Summa Logicales 7. 26.
Of particular interest is the modal logic of the canonical proof predicate of arithmetic. See Boolos (1979); and Smorynski (1985).
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Skyrms, B. (1991). Quantification, Modality, and Semantic Ascent. In: Brittan, G.G. (eds) Causality, Method, and Modality. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3348-7_10
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