Short Introduction to Modal Logic (Hardcover)

Grigori Mints

ISBN 10: 0937073768 / ISBN 13: 9780937073766

Verlag: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, Stanford, 1992

Hardcover. Modal Logic can be characterized as the logic of necessity and possibility, of 'must be' and 'may be'. A Short Introduction to Modal Logic presents both semantic and syntactic features of the subject and illustrates them by detailed analyses of the three best-known modal systems S5, S4 and T. The book concentrates on the logical aspects of the subject and provides philosophical motivations to show the point of the formal work. The coverage is self-contained, including a summary of the necessary aspects of classical logic which it presupposes. A set of exercises is included in the final chapter. This text presents semantic and syntactic features of modal logic and illustrates them by analyses of three modal systems S5, S4 and T. The book concentrates on the logical aspects of the subject and provides philosophical motivations to show the point of the formal work. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780937073766

Inhaltsangabe:

Modal Logic can be characterized as the logic of necessity and possibility, of 'must be' and 'may be'. A Short Introduction to Modal Logic presents both semantic and syntactic features of the subject and illustrates them by detailed analyses of the three best-known modal systems S5, S4 and T. The book concentrates on the logical aspects of the subject and provides philosophical motivations to show the point of the formal work. The coverage is self-contained, including a summary of the necessary aspects of classical logic which it presupposes. A set of exercises is included in the final chapter.

Críticas: ."..this is a book anyone familiar with modal logic will want to study..." Billy Joe Lucas, Journal of Symbolic Logic

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Short Introduction to Modal Logic (Hardcover)
Verlag: Centre for the Study of Language & Information, Stanford
Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: new