num_pages: 304
description: This is a thorough treatment of first-order modal logic. The book covers such issues as quantification, equality (including a treatment of Frege's morning star/evening star puzzle), the notion of existence, non-rigid constants and function symbols, predicate abstraction, the distinction between nonexistence and nondesignation, and definite descriptions, borrowing from both Fregean and Russellian paradigms.
language: English
title: First-Order Modal Logic
titlecomplete: First-Order Modal Logic (Synthese Library, 277)
genres: Philosophy, Logic
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Springer