First-Order Modal Logic
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First-Order Modal Logic
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Description
Fitting and Mendelsohn present a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic, together with some propositional background. They adopt throughout a threefold approach. Semantically, they use possible world models; the formal proof machinery is tableaus; and full philosophical discussions are provided of the way that technical developments bear on well-known philosophical problems. The book covers quantification itself, including the difference between actualist and possibilist quantifiers; equality, leading to a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle; the notion of existence and the logical problems surrounding it; non-rigid constants and function symbols; predicate abstraction, which abstracts a predicate from a formula, in effect providing a scoping function for constants and function symbols, leading to a clarification of ambiguous readings at the heart of several philosophical problems; the distinction between nonexistence and nondesignation; and definite descriptions, borrowing from both Fregean and Russellian paradigms.
Product details
- Type:
- Book
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Languages:
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Original:
English
- Number of Pages:
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308
- Publisher:
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Springer Netherlands
- Publication Date:
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1999-08-31
- ISBN / EAN:
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9780792353355
- Weight:
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466 g
- Dimensions:
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16/23/2 cm
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