Semantical Essays: Possible Worlds and Their Rivals

by M.J. Cresswell

Book Overview

Over a longer period than I sometimes care to contemplate I have worked on possible-worlds semantics. The earliest work was in modal logic, to which I keep returning, but a sabbatical in 1970 took me to UCLA, there to discover the work of Richard Montague in applying possible-worlds semantics to natural lan- guage. My own version of this appeared in Cresswell (1973) and was followed up in a number of articles, most of which were collected in Cresswell...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048182417
• ISBN13: 9789048182411
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"