Ruth Barcan Marcus Quotes on Knowledge
Ruth Barcan Marcus was an American philosopher and logician and one of the principal architects of twentieth-century quantified modal logic. This page collects quotes attributed to Ruth Barcan Marcus on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ruth Barcan Marcus:
“Modal logic must be taken seriously, not as a mere device.”
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Attributed to Ruth Barcan Marcus:
“Names are tags for objects; reference is fixed by use.”
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Attributed to Ruth Barcan Marcus:
“Possible worlds semantics requires modal commitment.”
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Attributed to Ruth Barcan Marcus:
“Logic is the most general framework for any rational thought.”