Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka On the Occasion of His Fiftieth
Jaakko Hintikka was born on January 12th, 1929. He received his doctorate from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Professor G. H. von Wright at the age of 24 in 1953. Hintikka was appointed Professor of philosophy at the University of Hel
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY,
LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Guest Managing Editor: DONALD DAVIDSON,
University o/Chicago
Editors: ROBERT S. COHEN,
Boston University
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, WESLEY C. SALMON,
University
0/ Leyden
University of Arizona
VOLUME 124
PROFESSOR JAAKKO HINTIKKA
ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JAAKKO HINTIKKA On the Occasion of His F~ftieth Birthday on January 12, 1979
Edited by
ESA SAARINEN RISTO HILPINEN ILKKA NlINILUOTO MERRILL PROVENCE HINTIKKA
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT: HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main Entry under Title: Essays in Honour of Jaakko Hintikka. (Synthese Library ; v. 124) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Philosophy-Addresses, Essays, Lectures. 2. Logic-Addresses, Essays, Lectures. 3. Semantics (Philosophy)-Addresses, Essays, Lectures. 4. Hintikka, Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani, 1929- Addresses, Essays, Lectures. I. Saarinen, 1953II. Hin tikka, Kaarlo Jaakko Juhani,1929B29.E797 100 -11364 ISBN-13: 978-94-009-9862-9 e-ISBN-13 :978-94-009-9860-5 DOl: 10.1007/ 978-94-009-9860-5
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T ABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ix
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
x
I. SEMANTICS OF NATURAL LANGUAGE
JULIUS M. E. MORAVcsIK/Grammar and Meaning AVISHAI MARGALlT / Sense and Science PATRICK sUPPEs/Variable-Free Semantics for Negations with Prosodic Variation LAURI CARLSON and ALICE TER MEULEN /Informational Independence in Intensional Context
3 17 49 61
II. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
DANA SCOTT / A Note on Distributive Normal Forms JENS ERIK FENST AD / On the Metaphysics of the Real Line JUHA OIKKONEN / A Generalization of the Infinitely Deep Languages of Hintikka and Rantala
75 91 101
Ill. APPLICATIONS OF FORMAL METHODS
.t.ADISLA V TONDL / On the Possibilities oflnformation Evaluation of Graphical Communications 115 KLEMENS SZANIAwSKI/On Formal Aspects of Distributive Justice 135 KRISTER SEGERBERG / Some Reflections on Method in the Theory of Social Choice 147 IV. PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC
DAVID LEWIS / A Problem about Permission VEIKKO RANT ALA / Possible Worlds and Formal Semantics ESA SAARINEN /Continuity and Similarity in Cross-Identification vii
163 177 189
viii
TABLE OF CONTENTS V. EPISTEMOLOGY
ISAAC LEVI/Serious Possibility DAVID WIG GIN S/ On Knowing, Knowing that One Knows and Consciousness ILKKA NIINILuoTo/Knowing that One Sees
219 237 249
VI. PHILOSOPH
