First-Order Modal Logic Hardback
by Melvin Fitting, Richard L. Mendelsohn
Part of the Synthese Library series
Hardback
Description
This revised edition of the highly recommended book "First-Order Modal Logic", originally published in 1998, contains both new and modified chapters reflecting the latest scientific developments.
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 andfunction 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. Review of the First Edition: "This Text is an excellent and most useful volume.
It is pitched correctly: the exercises are just right...
It sets a high standard for anything following. It is to be highly recommended." (Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 8:3)
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:460 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 460 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:19/10/2023
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- ISBN:9783031407130
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:460 pages, 1 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 460 p. 1 illus.
- Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
- Publication Date:19/10/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9783031407130
