Which modal models are the right ones (for logical necessity)?

Theoria 18 (2):145-158 (2003)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Recently it has become almost the received wisdom in certain quarters that Kripke models are appropriate only for something like metaphysical modalities, and not for logical modalities. Here the line of thought leading to Kripke models, and reasons why they are no less appropriate for logical than for other modalities, are explained. It is also indicated where the fallacy in the argument leading to the contrary conclusion lies. The lessons learned are then applied to the question of the status of the formula

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,221

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Logical necessity, physical necessity, ethics, and quantifiers.Richard Montague - 1960 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 3 (1-4):259 – 269.
Updating theories.Sjoerd D. Zwart - 2005 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 83 (1):375-395.
Temporal necessity and logical fatalism.Joseph Diekemper - 2004 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (3):287–294.
Kripke Models.John P. Burgess - 2011 - In Alan Berger (ed.), Saul Kripke. Cambridge University Press.

Analytics

Added to PP
2009-01-28

Downloads
211 (#86,728)

6 months
3 (#439,232)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

John Burgess
Princeton University

Citations of this work

Logic and time.John P. Burgess - 1979 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 44 (4):566-582.
A Uniform Logic of Information Dynamics.Wesley H. Holliday, Tomohiro Hoshi & Thomas F. Icard - 2012 - In Thomas Bolander, Torben Braüner, Silvio Ghilardi & Lawrence Moss (eds.), Advances in Modal Logic 9. College Publications. pp. 348-367.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Realism, Mathematics & Modality.Hartry H. Field - 1989 - New York, NY, USA: Blackwell.
The Development of Logic.William Kneale & Martha Kneale - 1962 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. Edited by Martha Kneale.
Realism, Mathematics, and Modality.Hartry Field - 1988 - Philosophical Topics 16 (1):57-107.
A completeness theorem in modal logic.Saul Kripke - 1959 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 24 (1):1-14.
Symbolic Logic.C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford - 1932 - Erkenntnis 4 (1):65-66.

View all 12 references / Add more references