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Meaning and Necessity, the Glossary

Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1947; enlarged edition 1956) is a book about semantics and modal logic by the philosopher Rudolf Carnap.^[1]

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Analytic philosophy literature
Books about necessity
Books by Rudolf Carnap
Books in semantics
Logic books
Philosophy of language literature

A. J. Ayer

Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989) was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956).

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Alonzo Church

Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, logician, and philosopher who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Class (philosophy)

A class is a collection whose members either fall under a predicate or are classified by a rule.

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Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is a Norwegian-American philosopher.

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E. J. Lowe

Edward Jonathan Lowe (24 March 1950 – 5 January 2014), usually cited as E. J. Lowe but known personally as Jonathan Lowe, was a British philosopher and academic.

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Ernest Nagel

Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science.

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Extension (semantics)

In any of several fields of study that treat the use of signs — for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language — the extension of a concept, idea, or sign consists of the things to which it applies, in contrast with its comprehension or intension, which consists very roughly of the ideas, properties, or corresponding signs that are implied or suggested by the concept in question.

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Formal language

In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules called a formal grammar.

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Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine." He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Henry E. Kyburg Jr.

Henry E. Kyburg Jr. (1928–2007) was Gideon Burbank Professor of Moral Philosophy and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, New York, and Pace Eminent Scholar at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, Florida.

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Intension

In any of several fields of study that treat the use of signs—for example, in linguistics, logic, mathematics, semantics, semiotics, and philosophy of language—an intension is any property or quality connoted by a word, phrase, or another symbol.

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Leon Chwistek

Leon Chwistek (Kraków, Austria-Hungary, 13 June 1884 – Barvikha near Moscow, Russia, 20 August 1944) was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician.

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Modal logic

Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility.

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Naming and Necessity

Naming and Necessity is a 1980 book with the transcript of three lectures, given by the philosopher Saul Kripke, at Princeton University in 1970, in which he dealt with the debates of proper names in the philosophy of language. Meaning and Necessity and Naming and Necessity are analytic philosophy literature, books about necessity and philosophy of language literature.

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Nathan Salmon

Nathan U. Salmon (né Nathan Salmon Ucuzoglu; born January 2, 1951) is an American philosopher in the analytic tradition, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Philosophy (journal)

Philosophy is the scholarly journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

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Property (philosophy)

In logic and philosophy (especially metaphysics), a property is a characteristic of an object; a red object is said to have the property of redness.

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Quarterly Journal of Speech

The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the National Communication Association.

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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap (18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.

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Saul Kripke

Saul Aaron Kripke (November 13, 1940 – September 15, 2022) was an American analytic philosopher and logician.

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Semantics

Semantics is the study of linguistic meaning.

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Teorema (journal)

Teorema is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal of philosophy, published in Spain.

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The Philosophical Review

The Philosophical Review is a quarterly journal of philosophy edited by the faculty of the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University and published by Duke University Press (since September 2006).

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University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press is the university press of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Vienna Circle

The Vienna Circle (Wiener Kreis) of logical empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, chaired by Moritz Schlick.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_and_Necessity

Also known as Meaning and Necessity: a Study in Semantics and Modal Logic.