The modal argument: Wide scope and rigidified descriptions

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Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-22

  Soames, Scott ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33846594987     PISSN: 00294624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0029-4624.00084     Document Type: Article

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