The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic: Selected Essays

di Jaakko Hintikka (Autore)

Merrill B.P. Hintikka (Autore)

Springer, 1989

somewhat like Henkin's nonstandard interpretation of higher-order logics, while the right semantics [or logical modalities is an analogue to the standard of type theory in Henkin's sense. interpretation Another possibility would be to follow W.V. Quine's advice to give up logi- cal modalities as being beyond repair. Or we could also try to develop a logic of conceptual possibility, restricting the range of our "possible worlds" to those compatible with the transcendental presuppositions of our own conceptual sys- tem. This looks in fact like one of the most interesting possible theories I have dreamt of developing but undoubtedly never will. Its kinship with Kant's way of thinking should be obvious. Besides putting the entire enterprise of possible-worlds semantics into a perspective, we can also see that the actual history of possible-worlds seman- tics is more complicated than it might first appear to be. For the standard in- terpretation of modal logics has reared its beautiful head repeatedly in the writings of Stig Kanger, Richard Montague the pre-Montague-semantics theorist, and Nino Cocchiarella.

• Autore: Jaakko Hintikka, Merrill B.P. Hintikka
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Synthese Library
• Anno: 1989
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 246 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• EAN: 9780792300403

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