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Hi-individuals and Where to Find Them—Towards a Hi-world Semantics for Quantified Modal Logic
- Source :
- Acta Analytica. 35:165-179
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- If to be is to be the value of a bound variable, then the acknowledgment and denial of the existence of chairs amounts to a serious disagreement about the range of a quantifier. However, by resorting to the intrinsic hierarchical structure of hi-world semantics, we find that the varying of domains from worlds to worlds can actually be accommodated within a unified framework. With the introduction of a universal domain D of hi-individuals and an existence predicate E that serves as a realization operator, a new semantics for quantified modal logic is proposed. It allows individual variables to range over individuals in different levels of a hi-world, and is indifferent to the ontological debate about the existence of chairs.
Details
- ISSN :
- 18746349 and 03535150
- Volume :
- 35
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta Analytica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1198bb3599dd45c3fe76c7e050b3528f