Modal logic, an extension of classical logic, investigates the modes of truth such as necessity and possibility. Its development has been closely intertwined with advances in proof theory, a field ...
Tradition states that above the entrance to Plato’s Academy were inscribed the words, “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.” A student in the modal logic interim course studies how subjunctives ...
Do you suffer from anxiety in your everyday life? This blog shows how a form of logic known as alethic modal logic can be used with logic-based therapy (LBT) to construct the emotional reasoning that ...
Kit Fine (Philos Perspect 8:1–16, 1994) famously objected against the idea that essence can be successfully analyzed in terms of de re necessity. In response, Iwant to explore a novel, interesting, ...
Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Vol. 49, No. 2 (1990), pp. 197-214 (18 pages) We illustrate, with three examples, the interaction between boolean and modal connectives by ...
In 1959, a paper appeared in The Journal of Symbolic Logic, with the unimpressive-sounding title “A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.” A completeness theorem is a guarantee that every universal ...