First-Order Modal Logic

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fitting, Melvin (Author), Mendelsohn, Richard L. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XX, 460 p. 1 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:2nd ed. 2023.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 480
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40714-7
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Background: Propositional Classical Logic. 1. Background: Propositional Language
  • 2. Background: Propositional Axiomatics
  • 3. Background: Propositional Tableaus
  • Part II. Propositional Modal Logic. 4. Modal Logic, an Introduction
  • 5. Propositional Modal Logic
  • 6. Propositional Modal Axiom Systems
  • 7. Propositional Modal Tableaus
  • Part III. First-Order Modal Logic. 8. Quantified Modal Logic
  • 9. First-Order Modal Tableaus
  • 10. First-Order Modal Axiomatics
  • Part IV. Equality and Existence. 11. Equality
  • 12. Existence
  • Part V. Predicate Abstraction and Scope. 13. Predicate Abstraction, Informally
  • 14. Predicate Abstraction, Formally
  • 15. Tableaus for Predicate Abstraction
  • 16. Tableau Soundness and Completeness. Part VI. Applications. 17. Equality and Predicate Abstraction
  • 18. Designation
  • 19. Rigidity
  • 20. Definite Descriptions
  • Afterward.