Meaning and Necessity. A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

By E. Nagel. 1948

Subfields: Philosophy

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In Philosophy

1. Mathijs Mul
2. Elia Bruni
3. Thomas Kühne

Citations in the corpus

• Compositionality Decomposed: How do Neural Networks Generalise? (2019, background): “Carnap (1947) presents an example that nicely illustrates the difference between these two interpretations, in which he considers sentences with tautologies.”
• Matters of (Meta-) Modeling (2006, methodology): “If C is a concept we use ε(C) to refer to its extension (all elements falling under the concept C) and ι(C) to refer to its intension (a conjunction of predicates characterizing whether an element belongs to the concept or not) [12], so that”
• What Is an Ontology? (2009, background): “This is the common way of expressing intensions, which goes back to Carnap [2] and is adopted and extended in Montague's semantics [4].”