Neopragmatist treatments of a domain of discourse eschew inflationary semantic notions, such as heavyweight representation relations, in favor of functional explanations. Neopragmatists often do this by providing an alternative, non-truth-conditional semantics for the discourse in question. This paper develops a neopragmatist treatment of logical necessity that pursues a different approach. It accepts a truth-conditional possible-worlds semantics, but provides a metasemantic account that appeals only to neopragmatist-friendly notions. The success of possible-worlds semantics is explained not by its correctly capturing representational structure, but by a functional explanation: a crucial function of logical modals is to express commitments to rules that govern all language games. I provide a formal explication that highlights the isomorphism between the semantic quantification over possible worlds and the metasemantic quantification over language games. The resulting account also explains what logical necessity has in common with other flavors of modality and secures the hardness of the logical “must”.

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