In Andy Egan & Brian Weatherson (eds.),
Epistemic Modality. Oxford University Press. pp. 108–130 (
2011)
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Abstract
The simplest story about modals—might, must, possibly, necessary, have to, can, ought to, presumably, likelier, and the rest—is also the canon: modals are context-dependent quantifiers over a domain of possibilities. Different flavors of modality correspond to quantification over different domains of possibilities. Logical modalities quantify over all the possibilities there are, physical modalities over possibilities compatible with the..