Modal logic and truth

Journal of Philosophical Logic 7 (1):441 - 472 (1978)
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I discuss in this paper a criticism of modal logic due to Donald Davidson and John Wallace. They have claimed that, to quote Wallace, “modal predicate calculus does not provide a reasonable standpoint from which to interpret a language” (1970, p. 147). The aim of this paper is to present and evaluate their argument for this claim

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On the frame of reference.John Wallace - 1970 - Synthese 22 (1-2):117 - 150.

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