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Ideas for 'Precis of 'Limits of Abstraction'', 'Letters to Blijenburgh' and 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation'

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10. Modality / A. Necessity / 4. De re / De dicto modality

15175	Evaluation of de dicto modalities does not depend on the identity of its objects [Sidelle]
	Full Idea: In the evaluation of de dicto modal statements, whether some possible state of affairs is relevant to its truth does not depend on the identity of its objects, as in 'Necessarily, the President of the USA is male'.
	From: Alan Sidelle (Necessity, Essence and Individuation [1989], Ch.3)
	A reaction: This is a more clear-cut and easy to grasp criterion than most that are on offer.