Toward Predicate Approaches to Modality
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 165292975
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Springer
- ISBN
- 9783319225562
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph offers the first book-length discussion of the predicate approach to modality and provides a deep philosophical and logical analysis of the prospects and limitations of this approach. The study (i) contrasts and compares the predicate approach to the more standard approach that conceives of modal notions as sentential operators; (ii) investigates its prospects and limitations in light of the Liar-like paradoxes; and (iii) introduces a general strategy for constructing philosophically attractive theories of modal notions conceived as predicates. As such the monograph makes a significant contribution to research in logic and adjacent areas of philosophy.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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