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In much of this chapter, we shall be speaking in the object language. When doing so, everything we say may be analyzed in terms of our four metaphysical primitives (object, n-place relation, exemplifies, encodes), six logical primitives (not, if-then, every, necessarily, the, being such that), and two primitive theoretical relations (exists, E-identical). All of the definitions constructed and theorems proved in what follows may be ultimately analyzed in terms of these primitives. We begin with a definition of truth.
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© 1983 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Zalta, E.N. (1983). The Applications of the Modal Theory. In: Abstract Objects. Synthese Library, vol 160. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6980-3_5
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