Objects and Modalities Objects and Modalities

Objects and Modalities

A Study in the Semantics of Modal Logic

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Publisher Description

This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called ‘world line semantics’, which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics. Addressing a wide range of questions vital for contemporary debates in logic and philosophy of language and offering new tools for theoretical linguistics and knowledge representation, the book proposes a radically new paradigm in modal semantics. This framework is motivated philosophically, viewing a structure of world lines as a precondition of modal talk. The author provides a uniform analysis of quantification over individuals (physical objects) and objects of thought (intentional objects). The semantic account of what it means to speak of intentional objects throws new light on accounts of intentionality and singular thought in the philosophy of mind and offers novel insights into the semantics of intensional transitive verbs.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2017
March 14
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
222
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer International Publishing
SELLER
Springer Nature B.V.
SIZE
5.8
MB
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