Venerable English game-maker Jaques which introduced croquet at London's Great Exhibition in 1851 makes the sport's finest kit, and its top-of-the-line Sandringham set is tournament-worthy, with mallets of lignum vitae and rockwood, precisely weighted balls and a handsome mahogany box.
But this doesn't mean commissioning Savile Row's finest to kit you out – few and far between are the roles that call for such formal attire.
There is a similar semantics (which is also based on Urquhart's ideas), due to Kit Fine, that was developed at the same time as the Routley-Meyer theory (Fine 1974).
In 1996, the university lured Kit Fine, one of the world's leading logicians and metaphysicians, from the University of California at Los Angeles; Mr. Fine said he had previously turned down a chair at Oxford.
Sony's EyePet is definitely worth a look for any PS3 owner and the PlayStation Eye itself is also a fine piece of kit which can even be used to make video calls.
"She was the first person to lay down in rigorous fashion a precisely defined system of rules for reasoning with modal and quantificational notions," said Kit Fine, Silver professor of philosophy and mathematics at New York University.
As it is often put, following Kit Fine (1975), a precisification must respect 'penumbral connections' between the borderline cases.
Now, I don't know where you come from, but in my neck of the woods, that's a fine piece of kit.
(Let me mention as an aside that Kit Fine distinguishes between essential and necessary properties and that perhaps the distinction could be exploited in this context).
