While reading Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's article on Modal Logic, I stumbled upon a phrase:
The answer is that there is a dangerous ambiguity in the English interpretation of [...a formula follows...]
In English, ‘necessarily’ is an adverb, and since adverbs are usually placed near verbs, we have no natural way to indicate whether the modal operator applies to the whole conditional, or to its consequent.
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