Referential Opacity and Modal Logic

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ISBN: 9780415938518 | 0415938511
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/25/2004

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This landmark work provides a systematic introduction to systems of modal logic and stands as the first presentation of what have become central ideas in philosophy of language and metaphysics, from the "new theory of reference" and non-linguistic necessity and essentialism to "Kripke semantics."

Introduction

Acknowledgments

xxxv

Chapter One: Referential and Extensional Opacity

(10)

1. Introduction

(2)

2. Criteria for Referential and Extensional Opacity

(3)

3. Alternative Criteria for Referential Opacity

(1)

4. Examples and Further Characteristics of Referential and Extensional Opacity

(1)

5. Interrelations between Referential Opacity and Extensional Opacity

(3)

Chapter Two: The Logical Modalities

(24)

6. Different Kinds of Modalities

(3)

7. Unquantified Modal Logic

(3)

8. Quantified Modal Logic

(2)

9. Systems of Quantified Modal Logic

(4)

10. Difficulties Relating to Quantification into Modal Contexts

(6)

11. Interpreting Quantified Modal Logic

(6)

Chapter Three: Identity of Individuals

(18)

12. The Identity of Individuals in Quantified Modal Logic

(5)

13. The Identity of Individuals in the Proposed Systems of Quantified Modal Logic

(13)

Chapter Four: Distinctness of Individuals

(14)

14. The Distinctness of Individuals, and Mixtures of Quantifiers and Modal Operators in Quantified Modal Logic

(8)

15. The Distinctness of Individuals, and Mixtures of Quantifiers and Modal Operators in the Proposed Systems of Quantified Modal Logic

(6)

Chapter Five: Singular Terms and Singular Inference

(20)

16. Definite Descriptions in Modal Logic

(7)

17. Singular Terms and the Individuation of Our Objects

(6)

18. Substitutivity of Identity and Other Types of Inference Turning on Singular Terms

(7)

Chapter Six: Examination of the Difficulties

(10)

19. Examination of the Difficulties Surveyed in Section 10

(8)

20. Other Difficulties in Quantified Modal Logic

(2)

Chapter Seven: Other Types of Opaque Contexts

(12)

21. Causal Modalities. Counterfactuals

(3)

22. Deontic Modalities

100

(4)

23. Epistemic Modalities

104

(1)

24. Belief Contexts

105

(1)

25. Other Contexts

106

(3)

Appendix I: Postulate Sets for the Systems of Truth-Functional Modal Logic Mentioned in the Thesis

109

(6)

Appendix II: The System of Church

115

(4)

Addendum

119

(26)

Bibliography

145

(6)

Index

151

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