Essays in Logical Semantics Tapa dura - 1986

Springer, 1986-02-28. Hardcover. Like New. 9x6x0. [From the library of noted scholar Delia Graff Fara] Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Contemporary signature of Graff on front end page. xi, 225 pages ; 23 cm. <br> "Recent developments in the semantics of natural language seem to lead to a genuine synthesis of ideas from linguistics and logic, producing novel concepts and questions of interest to both parent disciplines. This book is a collection of essays of such new topics, which have arisen over the past few years." <br> Delia Graff Fara was a professor of philosophy of language at Princeton University. It was during her first stint at Princeton that Fara completed her early landmark papers on the semantics and metaphysics of vagueness, including her classic, widely anthologized essay, "Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness.

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Springer, 1986 xi, 225 pages. Dust-wrapper very slightly sunned at top edges. Johan van Benthem is a University Professor emeritus of pure and applied logic at the University of Amsterdam, Henry Waldgrave Stuart professor of philosophy at Stanford University, and Changjiang national professor of humanities at Tsinghua University Beijing. He has worked in modal logic, temporal logic, logical semantics and syntax of natural language, as well as dynamic logics of information, computation, and agency. He was the founding director of the 'Institute for Logic, Language and Computation' (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, and the first Chair and First Honorary Member of the European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI). His published books include "The Logic of Time" (1983), "Modal Logic and Classical Logic" (1985), "Essays in Logical Semantics" (1986). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.