M J Cresswell: 4 books

Book cover of Semantical Essays

Semantical Essays

Possible Worlds and their Rivals

by M.J. Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Over a longer period than I sometimes care to contemplate I have worked on possible-worlds semantics. The earliest work was in modal logic, to which I keep returning, but a sabbatical in 1970 took me to UCLA, there to discover the work of Richard Montague in applying possible-worlds semantics to natural...
Book cover of The World-Time Parallel

The World-Time Parallel

Tense and Modality in Logic and Metaphysics

by A. A. Rini, M. J. Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012

Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds,...
Book cover of A New Introduction to Modal Logic
by M.J. Cresswell, G.E. Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

This long-awaited book replaces Hughes and Cresswell's two classic studies of modal logic: An Introduction to Modal Logic and A Companion to Modal Logic. A New Introduction to Modal Logic is an entirely new work, completely re-written by the authors. They have incorporated all the new developments...
Book cover of Logics and Languages
by M. J. Cresswell
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016

Originally published in 1973, this book shows that methods developed for the semantics of systems of formal logic can be successfully applied to problems about the semantics of natural languages; and, moreover, that such methods can take account of features of natural language which have often been...
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