Toward Predicate Approaches to Modality

• Main Author: Stern, Johannes (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 44
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Logic.; Metaphysics.

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...

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.