Meaning and Necessity

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Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1988-02-15

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0226093476

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"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic PDF

Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-10

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 9780353278530

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Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. - Scholar's Choice Edition

Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. - Scholar's Choice Edition PDF

Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781297029141

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Meaning, Reference and Necessity

Meaning, Reference and Necessity PDF

Author: Simon Blackburn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780521207201

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A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original contribution to them.

Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap PDF

Author: Max Cresswell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-15

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1316760456

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Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval (including Arabic) traditions, and then moves to the early modern period with particular attention to Locke and Leibniz. The views of Kant, Peirce, C. I. Lewis and Carnap complete the volume. Many of the essays illuminate the connection between the historical figures studied, and recent or current work in the philosophy of modality. The result is a rich and wide-ranging picture of the history of the logical modalities.

Objects and Modalities

Objects and Modalities PDF

Author: Tero Tulenheimo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 3319531190

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This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics. Addressing a wide range of questions vital for contemporary debates in logic and philosophy of language and offering new tools for theoretical linguistics and knowledge representation, the book proposes a radically new paradigm in modal semantics. This framework is motivated philosophically, viewing a structure of world lines as a precondition of modal talk. The author provides a uniform analysis of quantification over individuals (physical objects) and objects of thought (intentional objects). The semantic account of what it means to speak of intentional objects throws new light on accounts of intentionality and singular thought in the philosophy of mind and offers novel insights into the semantics of intensional transitive verbs.

Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. - Primary Source Edition

Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. - Primary Source Edition PDF

Author: Rudolf Carnap

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02-24

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781294721963

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Modal Logic

Modal Logic PDF

Author: Nino B. Cocchiarella

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0195366573

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1. Introduction. 2. The Syntax of Modal Sentential Calculi. 4. Semantics for Logical Necessity. 5. Semantics for S5. 6. Relational World Systems. 7. Quantified Modal Logic. 8. The Semantics of Quantified Modal Logic. 9. Second-Order Modal Logic. 10. Semantics of Second-Order Modal Logic. Afterword. Bibliography. Index.

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