Logical Studies

Informationen zum Autor Georg Henrik Von Wright Zusammenfassung First published in 2000. In this volume are eight essays; with the first three essays deal with the problem of logical truth. Their aim is to elucidate what is meant by saying that logical truth is formal-dependent of form and independent of content-or that logical truth is tautologous. The next is on study of distributive normal forms that awakened my interest in modality. The next three essays are in the field of modal logic. Related to modal logic are the problems of the conditional (the if-then) and of entailment (logical consequence) on which the final essay is based. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE; FORM AND CONTENT IN LOGIC; ON THE IDEA OF LOGICAL TRUTH (1); ON DOUBLE QUANTIFICATION; DEONTIC LOGIC; INTERPRETATIONS OF MODAL LOGIC; A NEW SYSTEM OF MODAL LOGIC; ON CONDITIONALS; THE CONCEPT OF ENTAILMENT

Autorentext
Georg Henrik Von Wright

Zusammenfassung
First published in 2000. In this volume are eight essays; with the first three essays deal with the problem of logical truth. Their aim is to elucidate what is meant by saying that logical truth is formal-dependent of form and independent of content-or that logical truth is tautologous. The next is on study of distributive normal forms that awakened my interest in modality. The next three essays are in the field of modal logic. Related to modal logic are the problems of the conditional (the if-then) and of entailment (logical consequence) on which the final essay is based.

Inhalt
PREFACE; FORM AND CONTENT IN LOGIC; ON THE IDEA OF LOGICAL TRUTH (1); ON DOUBLE QUANTIFICATION; DEONTIC LOGIC; INTERPRETATIONS OF MODAL LOGIC; A NEW SYSTEM OF MODAL LOGIC; ON CONDITIONALS; THE CONCEPT OF ENTAILMENT