Over the past thirty-two years, Quine has presented a number of arguments against the modalities, his criticism culminating in Word and Object. During the same period, modal logic has flourished as never before, and a number of semantic systems for the different modalities have been proposed, apparently quite unencumbered by Quine’s criticism. What is even more remarkable, Quine’s arguments have very rarely been discussed or even referred to by the proponents of modal logic, and the few who have discussed them, have all taken exception to them. What, then, is the current status of the modalities and of Quine’s arguments against them?