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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Toward Predicate Approaches to Modality
  name:
    name part: Stern, Johannes.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 190 p. online resource.
  abstract: In this volume, the author investigates and argues for, a particular answer to the question: What is the right way to logically analyze modalities from natural language within formal languages? The answer is: by formalizing modal expressions in terms of predicates. But, as in the case of truth, the most intuitive modal principles lead to paradox once the modal notions are conceived as predicates. The book discusses the philosophical interpretation of these modal paradoxes and argues that any satisfactory approach to modality will have to face the paradoxes independently of the grammatical category of the modal notion. By systematizing modal principles with respect to their joint consistency and inconsistency, Stern provides an overview of the options and limitations of the predicate approach to modality that may serve as a useful starting point for future work on predicate approaches to modality. Stern also develops a general strategy for constructing philosophically attractive theories of modal notions conceived as predicates. The idea is to characterize the modal predicate by appeal to its interaction with the truth predicate. This strategy is put to use by developing the modal theories Modal Friedman-Sheard and Modal Kripke-Feferman.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Modality and Logic -- Chapter 3. Consistencies and Inconsistencies in Modal Logic -- Chapter 4. Modality and Axiomatic Theories of Truth -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.
  note: by Johannes Stern.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  classification: BC1-199
  classification: 160
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 44
  identifier: 9783319225579
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22557-9
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    record change date: 20180224141412.0
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