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Author: A. A. Rini (Massey University, Auckland) ,
M. J. Cresswell (Victoria University of Wellington)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9781107691605
ISBN 10: 1107691605
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 19 September 2013
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'... Rini and Cresswell offer an account of various kinds of propositions as sets of indices, and look at the possibility that truth at an index can be given an analysis in terms of a primitive notion of actual present truth ... [they] present an indexical semantics for temporal operators, and a parallel indexical semantics for modal operators ... [they] show how to provide a semantics in terms of times and worlds for a tense and modal predicate language.' George Lazaroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy
...This book advertises itself as an exploration of the world-time parallel, that is, the parallel between the modal dimension, on the one hand, and the temporal dimension, on the other. It is that, and much more... this book is of interest to anyone who desires clarity about propositional content, de se knowledge (and indexicality more generally) and of course tense and modality... The book is rich with careful detail. It is full of places where various confusions are cleared away... there is so much packed into the various discussions that it is difficult to know where to start a review... -Kristie Miller, University of Sydney, Philosophy in Review
'... Rini and Cresswell offer an account of various kinds of propositions as sets of indices, and look at the possibility that truth at an index can be given an analysis in terms of a primitive notion of actual present truth ... [they] present an indexical semantics for temporal operators, and a parallel indexical semantics for modal operators ... [they] show how to provide a semantics in terms of times and worlds for a tense and modal predicate language.' George Lazaroiu, Review of Contemporary Philosophy 'The book is rich with careful detail. It is full of places where various confusions are cleared away.' Philosophy in Review
Author Information
Max Cresswell is Professor in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at the Victoria University of Wellington. He has published ten books, including Entities and Indices (1990), Language in the World (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and, with G. E. Hughes, A New Introduction to Modal Logic (1996). Adriane Rini is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Massey University, New Zealand. She is the author of Aristotle's Modal Proofs (2011).
