Necessity and contingency

Studia Logica 47 (2):145 - 149 (1988)
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The paper considers the question of when the operator L of necessity in modal logic can be expressed in terms of the operator meaning it is non-contingent that.

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A companion to modal logic.G. E. Hughes - 1984 - New York: Methuen. Edited by M. J. Cresswell.

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