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Title: Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intentionality.
Publisher: Cambridge & London: MIT Press, 1988.
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0262240270
ISBN 13: 9780262240277
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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In this book, Edward N. Zalta tackles the issues that arise in connection with intensional logic - a formal system for representing and explaining the apparent failures of certain important principles of inference - and intentional states - mental states such as beliefs, hopes, and desires, that are directed toward the world.

His theory not only offers a unified explanation of the various kinds of inferential failures associated with intensional logic, but also unifies the study of intensional contexts and intentional states by grounding the explanation of both phenomena in a single theory.

Zalta shows that an axiomatized realm of abstract entities, when added to the metaphysical structure of the world, can be used to identify and individuate the contents of directed mental states. These special abstract entities can be viewed as the objectified contents of mental files and they play a crucial role in the analysis of the truth conditions of the sentences involved in the inference failures.

The intentional logic Zalta develops, unlike others, can analyze a wide variety of failures involving the principles of substitutivity, existential generalization, and strong extensionality.

Edward N. Zalta is Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University. A Bradford Book.

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Edward N. Zalta is Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University.

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