First-Order Modal Logic - Couverture souple

Fitting, M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0792353358 ISBN 13 : 9780792353355

Editeur : Springer, 1999

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0792353358
• ISBN 13: 9780792353355
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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