Investigations in Modal and Tense Logics with Applications to Problems in Philosophy and Linguistics

This book is intended to serve as an advanced text and reference work on modal logic, a subject of growing importance which has applications to philosophy and linguistics. Although it is based mainly on research which I carried out during the years 1969-1973, it also includes some related results ob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gabbay, Dov M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1976, 1976
Edition:1st ed. 1976
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 0: An Introduction to General Intensional Logics
  • 0 / Consequence Relations
  • 1: An Introduction to One Dimensional Modal Logics
  • 1 / Basic Notions
  • 2 / General Theory of Unary Intensional Connectives
  • 3 / Basic Necessity Systems
  • 4 / Basic Tense Systems
  • 5 / Possible Worlds with Varying Domains
  • 6 / Equality and Proper Names
  • 7 / Propositional Statability Operators
  • 2: Technical Results for Propositional Calculi
  • 8 / The Finite Model Property
  • 9 / Selective Filtration
  • 3: Introduction to Many Dimensionel Modal Logics and Applications
  • 10 / Two Dimensional Propositional Tense Logics
  • 11 / An Appendix
  • 12 / Some Applications
  • 4: Special Systems
  • 13 / Relative Necessity Operators and the Subjunctive Conditional
  • 14 / Propositional Quantifiers
  • 15 / Basic Entailment Type Logics
  • 5: The Decision Problem
  • 16 / The Reduction Method
  • 17 / Some Decidability Results
  • 18 / The Decision Problem for Predicate Systems
  • 6: Special Topics
  • 19 / Completeness for Frames
  • 20 / The Interpolation Theorem
  • 7: Notes and Some References
  • Scheme of the Book
  • References
  • Index of Names