display all the ideas for this combination of texts
1 idea
13591 | Quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn [Quine] |
Full Idea: The whole of quantified modal logic collapses if essence is withdrawn. | |
From: Willard Quine (Intensions Revisited [1977], p.121) | |
A reaction: Quine offers an interesting qualification to this crushing remark in Idea 13590. The point is that objects must retain their identity in modal contexts, as if I say 'John Kennedy might have been Richard Nixon'. What could that mean? |