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Modal logic is the logic of necessity and possibility. Unlike non-modal logic, it codifies structures which represent how things could be as well as how things are. This text guides readers through the most basic systems of modal predicate logic with identity. Dealing with both technical developments such as completeness and incompleteness and finite and infinite models, it discusses philosophical applications, especially in the area of predicate logic.

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There has long been a need for a new version, and this is a superb new version. The new Hughes and Cresswell would clearly be the text of choice for introductory courses in modal logic. I expect this would be a standard reference in the subject for some years to come.. -Michael Byrd, University of Wisconsin-Madison Written ... with great pedagogical skill, [An Introduction to Modal Logic] can be recommended to all those (especially without a solid mathematical background) who want to make the first acquaintance with the subject. - Journal of Symbolic Logic [T]his new presentation on modal logic provides a much-needed updating of the [authors' earlier]classic introduction which preserves all the virtues of the original, but responds to all the advances in modal logic which are appropriate to its introductory nature. It is the new classic introductory text on modal logic. - Studia Logica

There has long been a need for a new version, and this is a superb new version. The new Hughes and Cresswell would clearly be the text of choice for introductory courses in modal logic. I expect this would be a standard reference in the subject for some years to come.. <br>-Michael Byrd, University of Wisconsin-Madison <br> Written ... with great pedagogical skill, [An Introduction to Modal Logic] can be recommended to all those (especially without a solid mathematical background) who want to make the first acquaintance with the subject. <br>- Journal of Symbolic Logic <br> [T]his new presentation on modal logic provides a much-needed updating of the [authors' earlier]classic introduction which preserves all the virtues of the original, but responds to all the advances in modal logic which are appropriate to its introductory nature. It is the new classic introductory text on modal logic. <br>- Studia Logica <br>

There has long been a need for a new version, and this is a superb new version. The new Hughes and Cresswell would clearly be the text of choice for introductory courses in modal logic. I expect this would be a standard reference in the subject for some years to come.. -Michael Byrd, University of Wisconsin-Madison Written ... with great pedagogical skill, [An Introduction to Modal Logic] can be recommended to all those (especially without a solid mathematical background) who want to make the first acquaintance with the subject. - Journal of Symbolic Logic [T]his new presentation on modal logic provides a much-needed updating of the [authors' earlier]classic introduction which preserves all the virtues of the original, but responds to all the advances in modal logic which are appropriate to its introductory nature. It is the new classic introductory text on modal logic. - Studia Logica

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M.J. Cresswell, G.E. Hughes

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