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- Lambert, K., 1983, Meinong and the Principle of Independence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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- Lewis, D., 1968, “Counterpart Theory and Quantified Modal Logic”, Journal of Philosophy, 65: 113–26. Reprinted with postscripts in Lewis 1983: 26–46. (Scholar)
- –––, 1970, “Anselm and Actuality”, Noûs 4: 175–88. Reprinted with postscripts in Lewis 1983: 10–25. (Scholar)
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- –––, 1986, On the Plurality of Worlds, London and New York: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
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- Linsky, L., 1971, Reference and Modality (ed.), London: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Loux, M. (ed.), 1979, The Possible and the Actual, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
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- Mally, E., 1912, Gegenstandstheoretische Grundlagen der Logik und Logistik, Leipzig: Barth. (Scholar)
- Marcus, R., 1961, “Modalities and Intensional Languages”, Synthese, 13: 303–22. Reprinted in Marcus 1993: 3–35, with appendices. (Scholar)
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