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Possible Worlds.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317489412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Possible WorldsDDC classification:
  • 110
LOC classification:
  • BC199.P7 G57 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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'.
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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'.

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