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A New Semantics for Systems of Logic of Essence

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The purpose of the present paper is to provide a way of understanding systems of logic of essence by introducing a new semantic framework for them. Three central results are achieved: first, the now standard Fitting semantics for the propositional logic of evidence is adapted in order to provide a new, simplified semantics for the propositional logic of essence; secondly, we show how it is possible to construe the concept of necessary truth explicitly by using the concept of essential truth; finally, Fitting semantics is adapted in order to present a simplified semantics for the quantified logic of essence.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Milan, L. A. Gemelli 1, 20123, Milan, Italy

    Alessandro Giordani

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Giordani, A. A New Semantics for Systems of Logic of Essence. Stud Logica 102, 411–440 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-013-9472-9

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