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Propositions / Trenton Merricks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merricks, Trenton, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proposition (Logic).
- Logic, Modern--20th century.
- Logic, Modern.
- Belief and doubt.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their nature. He draws a variety of controversial conclusions, for instance about supervaluationism, the nature of possible worlds, truths about non-existent entities, and whether and how logical consequence depends on modal facts.
- Contents:
- Propositions and modal validity
- Logical validity and modal validity
- Propositions are not sets of possible worlds
- Against structured propositions
- Singular propositions
- The nature of propositions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-881209-4
- 0-19-104652-3
- 0-19-179679-4
- 0-19-104651-5
- OCLC:
- 905308088
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