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    Bas C. Van Fraassen

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National Science Foundation support for this research is hereby gratefully acknowledged. I also wish to thank Stig Kanger, whose lectures on modal quantification theory at the Victoria University of Wellington, July 1981, gave me new insight into its algebraic structure; Richmond Thomason for helping me to clarify crucial ideas about predication, and Dana Scott for pointing me to Halmos' work which in turn gave me the right desiderate for the theory of variation (substitution).

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Van Fraassen, B.C. Quantification as an act of mind. J Philos Logic 11, 343–369 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00293434

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