Logic category: 1296 books
Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics
An Investigation of the Metaphysical and Logical Implications of Quantum Physics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
The book investigates the ontology and logic of quantum physics. The first part discusses the relationship of theory and observation and different views on the ontological status of scientific theories. It introduces the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and some of its interpretations and their compatibility...
Quantum Physics, Fuzzy Sets and Logic
Steps Towards a Many-Valued Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
This Brief presents steps towards elaborating a new interpretation of quantum mechanics based on a specific version of Łukasiewicz infinite-valued logic. It begins with a short survey of main interpretations of quantum mechanics already proposed, as well as various models of many-valued logics and...
Logic, Language, Information, and Computation
23rd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2016, Puebla, Mexico, August 16-19th, 2016. Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Communication, WoLLIC 2016, held in Puebla, Mexico, in August 2016.
The 23 contributed papers, presented...
Logics in Computer Science
A Study on Extensions of Temporal and Strategic Logics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In this monograph we introduce and examine four new temporal logic formalisms that can be used as specification languages for the automated verification of the reliability of hardware and software designs with respect to a desired behavior. The work is organized in two parts. In the first part two...
Philosophy and Logic In Search of the Polish Tradition
Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume contains papers on truth, logic, semantics, and history of logic and philosophy. These papers are dedicated to Jan Wolenski to honor his 60th birthday. Jan Wolenski is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. He is likely...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This volume presents recent advances in philosophical logic with chapters focusing on non-classical logics, including paraconsistent logics, substructural logics, modal logics of agency and other modal logics. The authors cover themes such as the knowability paradox, tableaux and sequent calculi,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The relation between logic and knowledge has been at the heart of a lively debate since the 1960s. On the one hand, the epistemic approaches based their formal arguments in the mathematics of Brouwer and intuitionistic logic. Following Michael Dummett, they started to call themselves `antirealists'....
by W. Kent Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
REA’s Essentials provide quick and easy access to critical information in a variety of different fields, ranging from the most basic to the most advanced. As its name implies, these concise, comprehensive study guides summarize the essentials of the field covered. Essentials are helpful when preparing...
by Avi Sion
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Future Logic is an original, and wide-ranging treatise of formal logic. It deals with deduction and induction, of categorical and conditional propositions, involving the natural, temporal, extensional, and logical modalities.This is the first work ever to strictly formalize the inductive processes...
by Peter Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This work contains Peter Long's important essay, Logic, Form and Grammar, which resolves many difficulties for the logical form of an argument where the reasoning is hypothetical. Also included are two essays on classical problems in philosophical logic, relating to logical form and formal relations....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh’s scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh’s interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilliant scholar whose...
by Roman Murawski
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
The aim of this book is to present and analyze philosophical conceptions concerning mathematics and logic as formulated by Polish logicians, mathematicians and philosophers in the 1920s and 1930s. It was a remarkable period in the history of Polish science, in particular in the history of Polish...
by Raymond M. Smullyan
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Combining stories of great writers and philosophers with quotations and riddles, this completely original text for first courses in mathematical logic examines problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, and other topics. 2013 edition.
Mill's A System of Logic
Critical Appraisals
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
John Stuart Mill considered his A System of Logic, first published in 1843, the methodological foundation and intellectual groundwork of his later works in ethical, social, and political theory. Yet no book has attempted in the past to engage with the most important aspects of Mill's Logic. This volume...