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Short Overview of the Development of Hintikka’s Work in Logic

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Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics

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I will present a short overview of Hintikka’s main ideas in logic, starting with his early work on constituents and model sets, continuing with his contributions to epistemic logic, up to his later work in game-theoretical semantics and the Interrogative Model of Inquiry.

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    Hintikka’s solution is basically the same solution as that given by Kanger much earlier in Kanger (1957b). Kanger was with Hintikka among the first ones to develop a “possible worlds” semantics for modal logic in Kanger (1957a)

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    Gabriel Sandu

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Sandu, G. (2018). Short Overview of the Development of Hintikka’s Work in Logic. In: van Ditmarsch, H., Sandu, G. (eds) Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game-Theoretical Semantics. Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62864-6_1

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