Time and Modality: Being the John Locke Lectures for 1955-6 Delivered in the University of Oxford

viii, 148 pp. CONTENTS: Basic Modal Logic and the L-Modal System; Tense-Logic and an Analogue of S4; A Tense-Logical Analogue of S5; A Re-Examination of Our Tense-Logical Postulates; The System Q; Modal Logic in the Style of Frege; Proper-Name Logic and Common-Noun Logic; The Weak "The" and the Strong "The;" Intentional Logic and Indeterminism; Indeterminism without Neuter Propositions; Appendix A: Tenses and Truth in the History of Logic; Appendix B: Some Features of the Lewis Modal Systems, and Further Comparisons with Q and L; Appendix C: The System A; Appendix D: Modal and Deontic Logic; Index.