First-Order Modal Logic

Name: First-Order Modal Logic
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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.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 1999

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Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998

Illustrations

XII, 292 p.

Pages

292

Series

Synthese Library,

Dimensions

160x240x16

ISBN-13

9780792353355

Product ID

2051639

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