Referential Opacity and Modal Logic

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Routledge, 2004 - Mathematics - 157 pages
This landmark dissertation (1961) 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'.

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About the author (2004)

Dagfinn FOllesdal was the editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic from 1970-1982.

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