Meredith, Prior, and the history of possible worlds semantics

DOI10.1007/S11229-005-5514-9MaRDI QIDQ857664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. Jack Copeland

Publication date 20 December 2006

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-005-5514-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45)

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