Ideas of Melvin Fitting, by Theme

[American, fl. 1998, At Lehmann College.]

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4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 8. Intensional Logic

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If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects

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Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 9. Awareness Logic

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Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 10. Justification Logics

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Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 8. Logic of Mathematics

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Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 3. Property (λ-) Abstraction

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λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

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Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds