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Remarks on Individuals in Modal Contexts

The goal of this note is to discuss Professor Hintikka's account of quantified modal logic, or, more generally, his account of the preconditions under which we can meaningfully use language to speak of individuals in contexts that semantically require considering multiple scenarios. Judging from the literature on modality and quantification philosophical as well as logical his proposal has either been misconstrued or ignored.11 believe that explicitly reconstructing Hintikka's semantic ideas on individuals would radically diminish the risk of a misunderstanding. It is such a reconstruction that I wish to sketch here. If Hintikka is right, certain widespread habits of thinking about individuals in modal contexts must be discarded once and for all. It is my hope that this note would serve to facilitate reaching this objective.