Essence and Modality∗
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∗This paper was published in Mind , 115/459 (July 2006): 659–693. Note: In transferring the LTEX in this preprint to the format used for publication in Mind, a couple of symbols were omitted. This preprint can be used to determine what the missing symbols are. †I’d like to thank Adriano Palma and Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde for inviting me to prepare this material and present it at the École Normale Supérieur, in Paris, in May 2002. I’d also like to thank Jeffrey Kegler and Paul Oppenheimer for carefully reading the intermediate and final draft of the paper, respectively, and sending critical comments. Finally, I’d like to thank Philip Percival, a referee for Mind , for several excellent observations as to how to make the paper better. Edward N. Zalta 2
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