The idea that the world can in principle be so described that the description contains no modal expressions is of a piece with the idea that world can in principle be so described such that the description contains no prescriptive expressions.
— Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and the Causal Modalities §80
- He doesn’t explicitly say whether it’s a bad idea or not.
- He wants to say modal expressions and normative expression belong in a box.