Quantifiers, propositions and identity : admissible semantics for quantified modal and substructural logics / / Robert Goldblatt

• Autore: Goldblatt Robert
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 511.3
• Soggetto topico: Modality (Logic); Variables (Mathematics); Semantics (Philosophy); Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Classificazione: MAT018000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction and overview -- Chapter 1. Logics with actualist quantifiers -- Chapter 2. The Barcan formulas -- Chapter 3. The existence predicate -- Chapter 4. Propositional functions and predicate substitution -- Chapter 5. Identity -- Chapter 6. Cover semantics for relevant logic.
• Sommario/riassunto: Many systems of quantified modal logic cannot be characterised by Kripke's well-known possible worlds semantic analysis. This book shows how they can be characterised by a more general 'admissible semantics', using models in which there is a restriction on which sets of worlds count as propositions. This requires a new interpretation of quantifiers that takes into account the admissibility of propositions. The author sheds new light on the celebrated Barcan Formula, whose role becomes that of legitimising the Kripkean interpretation of quantification. The theory is worked out for systems with quantifiers ranging over actual objects, and over all possibilia, and for logics with existence and identity predicates and definite descriptions. The final chapter develops a new admissible 'cover semantics' for propositional and quantified relevant logic, adapting ideas from the Kripke-Joyal semantics for intuitionistic logic in topos theory. This book is for mathematical or philosophical logicians, computer scientists and linguists.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quantifiers, propositions and identity
• ISBN: 1-139-09842-X; 1-139-09910-8; 1-139-10178-1; 1-139-09978-7; 0-511-86235-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827951403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Lecture notes in logic ; ; 38.