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Gochet, Paul. 1995. Modal logic. In Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert, eds. Handbook of Pragmatics. Manual. John Benjamins.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

modal logic | pragmatics | semantics1 | tense logic

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This essay addresses: the development of modal logic; Irving Lewis’ contribution; what modal logic is about; quantified modal logic; tense logic and the step from tense logic to pragmatics.