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The Worlds of Possibility Modal Realism and the Semantics of Modal Logic [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Philosophy)
  • Author:  Chihara, Charles S.
  • Author:  Chihara, Charles S.
  • ISBN-10:  0199246556
  • ISBN-10:  0199246556
  • ISBN-13:  9780199246557
  • ISBN-13:  9780199246557
  • Publisher:  Clarendon Press
  • Publisher:  Clarendon Press
  • Pages:  360
  • Pages:  360
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2001
  • Pub Date:  01-Jul-2001
  • SKU:  0199246556-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0199246556-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100924527
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A powerful challenge to some highly influential theories, this book offers a thorough critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that many possible worlds exist of which our own universe is just one. Chihara challenges this claim and offers a new argument for modality without worlds.

Introduction
1. Possible Worlds Semantics
2. Transworld Identity
3. Modal Realism
4. Forbes's Anti-Modal Realism
5. The Semantics of Classical Predicate Logic
6. Modality without Worlds: The Semantics of Modal Sentential Logic
7. Quantificational Logic
8. Modality without Worlds: Explorations, Developments, and Defences
9. Anti-Realism in Mathematics
Bibliography
Index
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