Marti on descriptions in Carnap's S2
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Marti on descriptions in Carnap's S2
zbMATH Open document ID: 0885.03019
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017941003240
author: Michael Kremer
published in: Journal of Philosophical Logic
publication date: 1998-04-15T00:00:00Z
review text: This amendment of \textit{G. Marti's} ``Do modal distinctions collapse in Carnap's system?'' [J. Philos. Logic 23, 575-593 (1994; Zbl 0812.03006)] is not self-contained. The author writes: ``I will assume familiarity with Marti's paper in the interest of brevity.'' By careful analysis of expressing definite descriptions, Marti showed that Follesdal erred in his argument that modal distinctions collapse in Carnap's S2. Marti gave definite descriptions different treatment in modal contexts than in non-modal contexts. In this note, the author shows how Marti's argument can be carried out with a uniform treatment of definite descriptions. He then gives a semantic argument that with this treatment for definite descriptions, no modification of Follesdal's argument could be effective.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03B45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
zbMATH DE Number: 1083185
zbMATH Keywords: modal logic
zbMATH Keywords: modal distinctions
zbMATH Keywords: Carnap's S2
zbMATH Keywords: definite descriptions
reviewed by: Charles F. Kielkopf
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1083185