Necessity Lost: Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy, Volume 1

by Sanford Shieh

A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true. A relatively unknown feature of the analytic tradition in philosophy is that, at its very inception, this venerable conception of the relation between logic and necessity and possibility - the concepts of modality - was put into question...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199228647
• ISBN13: 9780199228645
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"