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New Essays in Free Logic: In Honour of Karel Lambert - Applied Logic Series Edgar Morscher 2002 edition
New Essays in Free Logic: In Honour of Karel Lambert - Applied Logic Series
Edgar Morscher
Free logic - i.e., logic free of existential presuppositions in general and with respect to singular terms in particular- began to come into its own as a field of research in the 1950s. In an introductory essay we give a survey of the present status of and new directions in free logic.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface. Free Logic: A Fifty-Year Past and an Open Future; E. Morscher, P. Simons. Part I: Names and Definite Descriptions. Free Logic and Definite Descriptions; K. Lambert. Calculi of Names: Free and Modal; P. Simons. Part II: Modalities. Free Logic and Quantification in Syntactic Modal Contexts; P. Schweizer. Substitution, Quantifiers and Identity in Modal Logic; S. Ghilardi. Free Epistemic Logic; W. Lenzen. Part III: Semantics and Programming. Supervaluational Free Logic and the Logic of Information Growth; J. B. Escriba. No Input, No Output' Logic; S. Lehmann. Free Logic in Program Specification and Verification; R. D. Gumb. Part IV: History. Existence and Reference in Medieval Logic; G. Klima. Can Meinongian Logic Be Free? J. Pasniczek. Part V: Comments. Comments; K. Lambert. Index of persons."
Contributor Bio: Hieke, Alexander Alexander Hieke is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 31, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9781402002168 |
| Publishers | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Pages | 255 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 234 × 15 mm · 553 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Hieke, A. |
| Editor | Morscher, E. |
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