Ontology-free modal semantics (Q1815412)

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Ontology-free modal semantics
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    Ontology-free modal semantics (English)
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    12 November 1996
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    Believing that modal semantics should be done without ontological assumptions made by possible-worlds semantics the author reproduces Christopher Menzel's model-theoretical semantics for modal languages which works without assuming ``possibilia'', and builds up a more extensionalist ``ontology-free'' modification of it. Theorems 1 and 2 are proved in the Appendix getting irrationally the names ``Theorem 3'' and ``Theorem 4''.
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    modal semantics
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    possible-worlds semantics
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    model-theoretical semantics
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