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In this paper, I reconstruct Quineʼs arguments against quantified modal logic, from the early 1940ʼs to the early 1960ʼs. Quineʼs concerns were not technical. Quine was looking for a coherent interpretation of quantified-in English modal sentences. I argue that Quineʼs main thesis is that the intended objectual interpretation of the quantifiers is incompatible with any semantic reading of the modal...
De re modality is eliminable if there is an effective translation of all wffs into non-de re equivalents. We cannot have logical equivalence unless ‘logic’ has odd theses, but we can have material equivalence by banning all essences, something the non-de re facts let us do, or by giving everything such humdrum essences as self-identity and banning the more interesting ones. Eliminability cannot be...
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