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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: logic

• Full title: First-Order Modal Logic
• Author: M. Fitting, Richard L. Mendelsohn
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9780792353348
• ISBN: 079235334X
• ID: 05250596
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 1350 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 1998

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