On Kripke /

Preti, Consuelo.

On Kripke / Consuelo Preti. - Singapore : Thomson Learning, c2003. - 96 p. 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-96)

Principal contribution is a metaphysical description of modality, involving possible worlds as described in a system now called Kripkey semantics.Showed that a language can consistently contains its own truth predicate( analytic philosophy). The trick involves letting truth be partially defined property over the set of grammatically well- formed sentences in the language.

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