"Possible Worlds: An Introduction to Logic and Its Philosophy", by Raymond Bradley and Norman Swartz

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1. Legal notice 1. Contents 1. Preface 1. To the Teacher 1. To the Student 1. Possible Worlds	Chapter 1. (2,152,709 bytes) pp. i-xxii, 1-64	Glossary for Chapter 1. Answers to Exercises in Chapter 1. In brief: "What is a possible world?" In greater detail: Truth (with Bradley Dowden) Possible Worlds What is Truth? Is Everything Relative, Including Truth?
2. Propositions	Chapter 2. (1,379,054 bytes) pp. 65-128	Summary of pp. 68-86 – What sorts of things have truth-values? Use and mention Reasoning, Good and Bad How Good are Your Logical Intuitions? The Nature and Status of Logic Are the Laws of Nature Necessary or Contingent? Contingency
3. Knowledge	Chapter 3. (1,027,813 bytes) pp. 129-178	More on the concept of knowledge In brief: Epistemic Modes Euler on the Bridges of Könisberg
4. The Science of Logic: An Overview	Chapter 4. (1,422,672 bytes) pp. 179-246
5. Truth-Functional Propositional Logic	Chapter 5. (1,392,027 bytes) pp. 247-322	Correction to Figure (5.bb), page 305. Answers to Exercises on p. 306 Computer program to find all forms of a well-formed-formula (wff)
6. Modal Propositional Logic 6. Index	Chapter 6. (1,662,993 bytes) pp. 323-391	More on 'the' modal fallacy

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