<p>In the last few decades, truthmaker semantics has attracted the attention of scholars from various areas, arguably due to its philosophical underpinning and its flexibility in addressing a number of problems that are difficult to solve using alternative semantic frameworks. Attention is now focused on developing truthmaker semantics for modal logic; this paper contributes to that direction. The basic idea we introduce is that truthmakers of modal sentences are norms. This allows us to derive two interesting results: first, we introduce a new modal semantics for minimal monotonic logic; second, we provide a truthmaker semantics for every modal logic characterized by a class of Kripke frames. This is, as far as we can tell, the first general result about truthmaker semantics for normal modal logics.</p>

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A Norm-based Truthmaker Semantics for Modal Logic

  • Alessandro Giordani,
  • Vita Saitta

摘要

In the last few decades, truthmaker semantics has attracted the attention of scholars from various areas, arguably due to its philosophical underpinning and its flexibility in addressing a number of problems that are difficult to solve using alternative semantic frameworks. Attention is now focused on developing truthmaker semantics for modal logic; this paper contributes to that direction. The basic idea we introduce is that truthmakers of modal sentences are norms. This allows us to derive two interesting results: first, we introduce a new modal semantics for minimal monotonic logic; second, we provide a truthmaker semantics for every modal logic characterized by a class of Kripke frames. This is, as far as we can tell, the first general result about truthmaker semantics for normal modal logics.