The Semantics of Contemporary Essentialism

Dissertation, University of Illinois at Chicago (1980)
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The thesis presents and defends an essentialistic semantic theory. The theory has a formal and an informal component. The formal component is the intensional modal logic of Aldo Bressan, a possible worlds system that has certain advantages over better known systems like those of Carnap or Krip

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