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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199246556

ISBN-139780199246557

eBay Product ID (ePID)1921124

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Number of Pages354 Pages

Publication NameWorlds of Possibility : Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

SubjectMetaphysics, Logic, Movements / Realism

TypeTextbook

AuthorCharles S. Chihara

Subject AreaMathematics, Philosophy

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

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Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal160

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. Possible Worlds Semantics2. Transworld Identity3. Modal Realism4. Forbes's Anti-Modal Realism5. The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic6. Modality without Worlds: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic7. Quantificational Logic8. Modality without Worlds: Explorations, Developments, and Defences9. Anti-Realism in MathematicsBibliographyIndex

SynopsisA powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds., Charles Chihara gives a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible worlds of which the actual world -- the universe in which we live -- is just one. The striking success of possible-worlds semantics in modal logic has made this ontological doctrine attractive. Modal realists maintain that philosophers must accept the existence of possible worlds if they wish to have the benefit of using possible-worldssemantics to assess modal arguments and explain modal principles. Chihara challenges this claim, and argues instead for modality without worlds; he offers a new account of the role of interpretations orstructures of the formal languages of logic., Charles Chihara gives a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible worlds of which the actual world -- the universe in which we live -- is just one. The striking success of possible-worlds semantics in modal logic has made this ontological doctrine attractive. Modal realists maintain that philosophers must accept the existence of possible worlds if they wish to have the benefit of using possible-worlds semantics to assess modal arguments and explain modal principles. Chihara challenges this claim, and argues instead for modality without worlds; he offers a new account of the role of interpretations or structures of the formal languages of logic., Charles Chihara gives a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible worlds of which the actual world--the universe in which we live--is just one. The striking success of possible-worlds semantics in modal logic has made this ontological doctrine attractive. Modal realists maintain that philosophers must accept the existence of possible worlds if they wish to have the benefit of using possible-worldssemantics to assess modal arguments and explain modal principles. Chihara challenges this claim, and argues instead for modality without worlds; he offers a new account of the role of interpretations orstructures of the formal languages of logic.