Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity: Admissible Semantics for Quantified Modal and Substructural Logics

by Robert Goldblatt

Book Overview

Many systems of quantified modal logic cannot be characterised by Kripke's well-known possible worlds semantic analysis. This book shows how they can be characterised by a more general 'admissible semantics', using models in which there is a restriction on which sets of worlds count as propositions. This requires a new interpretation of quantifiers that takes into account the admissibility of propositions. The author sheds new light on the celebrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107010527
• ISBN13: 9781107010529
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"