Models for Modalities Selected Essays

The papers collected in this volume were written over a period of some eight or nine years, with some still earlier material incorporated in one of them. Publishing them under the same cover does not make a con­ tinuous book of them. The papers are thematically connected with each other, however, in...

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Main Author: Hintikka, Jaakko
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1969, 1969
Edition:1st ed. 1969
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:
  • I. Methodological Orientation
  • Epistemic Logic and the Methods of Philosophical Analysis
  • II. The Logic of Existence
  • Existential Presuppositions and Their Elimination
  • On the Logic of the Ontological Argument: Some Elementary Remarks
  • III. The Semantics of Modality
  • Modality and Quantification
  • The Modes of Modality
  • Semantics for Propositional Attitudes
  • Existential Presuppositions and Uniqueness Presuppositions
  • IV. Conceptual Analyses
  • On the Logic of Perception
  • Deontic Logic and Its Philosophical Morals
  • Note on the Origin of the Different Essays
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects