Temporal necessity and the conditional

DOI10.1007/BF00370369MaRDI QIDQ2640588zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Charles B. Cross

Publication date 1990

Published in Studia Logica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370369

zbMATH Keywords

comparative world similarityconditional logicEdelberg inferenceslogic of temporal necessitymodal logicPast Predominancepossible worlds semantics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Modal logic (including the logic of norms) (03B45)

Review text

In standard possible worlds semantics for conditional logic a similarity- relation between worlds is used to express truth conditions for conditionals. A reasonable explication for comparative world similarity is the principle of Past Predominance: past similarities and differences take priority over future similarities and differences. Here Past Predominance is expressed without using branching time models. This approach allows to solve the completeness problem for a logic of temporal necessity and to incorporate Edelberg inferences into the proposed system.

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