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A formalisation of referentially opaque contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

L. Jonathan Cohen
L. Jonathan Cohen*
Affiliation:
The Queen's College Oxford University
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In most published systems of modal logic only one or two modal operators occur as undefined constants alongside the primitives of non-modal logic. But in a single informal argument many non-interdefinable modal operators may occur. E.g. in philosophy we may have ‘it is logically true that’, ‘it is analytic that’, and ‘it is physically necessary that’; and in jurisprudence or private international law we may have statements about what it is obligatory or not obligatory to do under several different systems of rules. Moreover even if the contexts of such operators are all referentially opaque, in Quine's sense [1] of being exempt from the substitutivity of truth-functional biconditionals, some are, as it were, opaquer than others, in being exempt from the substitutivity of certain non-truth-functional biconditionals as well.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , September 1960 , pp. 193 - 202
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1960

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