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Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Rudolf Carnap. John R. Gregg ; John R. Gregg. Search for more articles by this author PDF; PDF PLUS; Add to favorites; Download Citation; Track Citations; Permissions; Reprints; Share on. Facebo ...
Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Rudolf Carnap. Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press (1947) Copy B IB T E X. Abstract This is identical with the first edition (see 21: 2716) except for the addition of a Supplement cont ...
"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees ...
Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Rudolf Carnap - 1947 - Chicago, IL, USA: University of Chicago Press. A modal view of the semantics of theoretical sentences. Holger Andreas - 2010 - Synthese 174 (3):367 - 383. Revising Carnap ...
The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted ...
"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The ...
Furthermore, all subsequent work in intensional logic and the semantics of modal logic owes something to Carnap's treatment of "possible worlds" in terms of state-descriptions: contemporary modal logic has rather less to do with the metaphysics of modality than with the issues of descriptive adequacy raised by possible-worlds semantics and addressed at length in Barwise and Perry's *Situations ...
- Rudolf Carnap
