Aquí: “It may be argued that these modifications gi\& us a way of meeting the objections of those logicians who have doubted the feasibility (or the advisability) of quantifying into modal contexts.10 The gist of these objections has been, if I have diagnosed them correctly, that a genuine substitution-value of a bound individual variable must be a singular term which really specifies a well-defined individual, and that an ordinary singular term may very well fail to do so in a modal context. For instance, from (i) the number of planets is nine but it is possible that it should be larger than ten (which may be assumed to be true for the sake of argument) we cannot infer (ii) (Ex) (x = 9 & it is possible that x > 10), for in so far as (ii) makes sense, it appears to be obviously false.” (Hintikka, p. 77.)
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