Possible Worlds.
Girle, Rod.
Possible Worlds. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Possible worlds -- 3 Possible worlds and quantifiers -- 4 Possible worlds, individuals and identity -- 5 Possibility talk -- 6 The possible worlds of knowledge -- 7 The possible worlds of belief -- 8 Time and many possible worlds -- 9 Real possibility -- 10 Impossible possible worlds -- 11 Unfinished story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examines the ways in which possible worlds have been used as a framework for considering problems in logic and argument analysis. This book offers an introduction to the basic ideas of modal logic in terms of Saul Kripke's possible worlds and discusses 'possible for' and 'possible that'.
9781317489412
Possibility.
Electronic books.
BC199.P7 G57 2014
110
Possible Worlds. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (225 pages)
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Possible worlds -- 3 Possible worlds and quantifiers -- 4 Possible worlds, individuals and identity -- 5 Possibility talk -- 6 The possible worlds of knowledge -- 7 The possible worlds of belief -- 8 Time and many possible worlds -- 9 Real possibility -- 10 Impossible possible worlds -- 11 Unfinished story -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Examines the ways in which possible worlds have been used as a framework for considering problems in logic and argument analysis. This book offers an introduction to the basic ideas of modal logic in terms of Saul Kripke's possible worlds and discusses 'possible for' and 'possible that'.
9781317489412
Possibility.
Electronic books.
BC199.P7 G57 2014
110