Talk (Work in Progress): Wouter Cohen (MCMP)
Location: Ludwigstr. 31, ground floor, Room 021.
15.05.2025 12:00 – 14:00
Title:
Empiricism and modality: a new semantics for first-order modal logic
Abstract:
I present a new semantics for quantified (first-order) modal logic: similarity semantics. This semantics is inspired by an empiricist epistemology of modality and does not use possible worlds. I first briefly explain this epistemological and anti-metaphysical motivation, before slowly building the semantics with simple examples.