The 'so-called' analogy fails because 'so-called' is explicitly metalinguistic, whereas modal adverbs embed freely under quantifiers and attitude verbs without metalinguistic readings.
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A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
quantifiers(the logical form Russell said descriptions should take)
Words like 'all,' 'some,' and 'none' that express how many things we're talking about; Russell argued that phrases like 'the king of France' should be understood using these quantity-words rather than as simple names.