O título alude ao livro de Antonio Candido, Teresina etc. Rio Janeiro: Ouro sobre azul, 2007.
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In this paper I argue against the commonly received view that Kripke’s formal Possible World Semantics (PWS) reflects the adoption of a metaphysical interpretation of the modal operators. I consider in detail Kripke’s three main innovations vis-à-vis Carnap’s PWS: a new view of the worlds, variable domains of quantification, and the adoption of a universal notion of validity. I argue that all t...

The standard semantics for the modal fragment of natural languages can only be correct if there is more than one possible world. The nature and existence of possible worlds is thus of fundamental importance for such a semantics. The paper develops an account of possible worlds in the spirit of the pleonastic account of abstract entities in general, due to Stephen Schiffer (2003: ch. 2). The mai...