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Gochet, Paul. 2010. Modal logic. In Östman, Jan-Ola, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics. (Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 10). John Benjamins. pp. 163–170.

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.