Possible world theory

Author: Gong Zhaoxiang
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: This book comprehensively presents various aspects of possible world semantics, an important field in contemporary logic and semantics: its basic ideas, formal models, various copies (including situational semantics), and related propositional attitude semantics. It examines various philosophical understandings of possible worlds and attempts to apply the theory to several major aspects of human mental activities: cognition, first evaluation, and aesthetic domains. As preliminary knowledge, the book presents general modal logic and classical logical semantic theory. This book is suitable for logicians, philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, and law workers and students.