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Ideas for 'works', 'Three Grades of Modal Involvement' and 'A Plea for Substitutional Quantification'

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5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic

12219	Whether a modal claim is true depends on how the object is described [Quine, by Fine,K]
	Full Idea: Quine says if ∃x□(x>7) makes sense, then for which object x is the condition rendered true? Specify it as '9' and it is apparently rendered true, specify it as 'the number of planets' and it is apparently rendered false.
	From: report of Willard Quine (Three Grades of Modal Involvement [1953]) by Kit Fine - Quine on Quantifying In p.105
	A reaction: This is normally characterised as Quine saying that only de dicto involvement is possible, and not de re involvement. Or that that all essences are nominal, and cannot be real.