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Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)

Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity By Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)

Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity by Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)


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Develops new semantical characterisations of many logical systems with quantification that are incomplete under the traditional Kripkean possible worlds interpretation. This book is for mathematical or philosophical logicians, computer scientists and linguists, including academic researchers, teachers and advanced students.

Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity Summary

Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity: Admissible Semantics for Quantified Modal and Substructural Logics by Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)

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.

About Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)

Robert Goldblatt is a Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He has served as the Co-ordinating Editor of the Journal of Symbol Logic and has been a Managing Editor of Studia Logica for the past two decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction and overview; 1. Logics with actualist quantifiers; 2. The Barcan formulas; 3. The existence predicate; 4. Propositional functions and predicate substitution; 5. Identity; 6. Cover semantics for relevant logic; References; Index.

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NPB9781107010529
9781107010529
1107010527
Quantifiers, Propositions and Identity: Admissible Semantics for Quantified Modal and Substructural Logics by Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2011-07-14
282
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