The what and the how II: Reals and mights

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Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 413-433

  Almog, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60949128446     PISSN: 00294624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2216112     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. "Identity and Necessity" in Munitz (ed.) Identity and Individuation, NY U. P. 1971
2. Follovving Kripke, I take the quest for unicorns on the model of the astronomer's failure to discover Vulcan, not on the model of the artist's successful creation of the fictional Hamlet. My dictionary entry reads: "A fabulous animal mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman authors as a native of India, with a body like a horse and one straight horn; an unfortunate translation of the Hebrew re-em, anticipated by the monokeros of the septuagint, variously understood as the rhinoceros, wild-ox or Ox-antelope (Bible) . . ." See Chambers Dictionary, The University Press, Cambridge, 1993