Free Logic

Author : Edgar Morscher,Alexander Hieke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402002165

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New Essays in Free Logic by Edgar Morscher,Alexander Hieke Pdf

Free logic - i.e., logic free of existential presuppositions in general and with respect to singular terms in particular- began to come into its own as a field of research in the 1950s. As is the case with so many developments in Western philosophy, its roots can be traced back to ancient Greek philo sophy. It is only during the last fifty years, however, that it has become well established as a branch of modern logic. The name of Karel Lambert is most closely connected with this development: he gave it its name and its profile as a well defined field of research. After a development of fifty years, it is time to look back and take stock while at the same time scanning for new perspectives. This is the purpose of the papers collected in this volume. The first paper is written by Karel Lambert himself who also comments on all the papers of the other authors. In an introductory essay we give a survey of the present status of and new directions in free logic.

Author : P. D. Magnus,Tim Button,Robert Trueman,Richard Zach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Logic
ISBN : OCLC:1410964102

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Forall X by P. D. Magnus,Tim Button,Robert Trueman,Richard Zach Pdf

Author : A. Orenstein,P. Kotatko
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0792359860

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Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine by A. Orenstein,P. Kotatko Pdf

Quine is one of the twentieth century's most important and influential philosophers. The essays in this collection are by some of the leading figures in their fields and they touch on the most recent turnings in Quine's work. The book also features an essay by Quine himself, and his replies to each of the papers. Questions are raised concerning Quine's views on knowledge: observation, holism, truth, naturalized epistemology; about language: meaning, the indeterminacy of translation, conjecture; and about the philosophy of logic: ontology, singular terms, vagueness, identity, and intensional contexts. Given Quine's preeminent position, this book must be of interest to students of philosophy in general, Quine aficionados, and most particularly to those working in the areas of epistemology, ontology, philosophies of language, of logic, and of science.

Author : Dov M. Gabbay,Franz Guenthner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0792371607

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Handbook of Philosophical Logic by Dov M. Gabbay,Franz Guenthner Pdf

It is with great pleasure that we are presenting to the community the second edition of this extraordinary handbook. It has been over 15 years since the publication of the first edition and there have been great changes in the landscape of philosophical logic since then. The first edition has proved invaluable to generations of students and researchers in formal philosophy and language, as well as to consumers of logic in many applied areas. The main logic artiele in the Encyelopaedia Britannica 1999 has described the first edition as 'the best starting point for exploring any of the topics in logic'. We are confident that the second edition will prove to be just as good. ! The first edition was the second handbook published for the logic commu nity. It followed the North Holland one volume Handbook 0/ Mathematical Logic, published in 1977, edited by the late Jon Barwise. The four volume Handbook 0/ Philosophical Logic, published 1983-1989 came at a fortunate temporal junction at the evolution of logic. This was the time when logic was gaining ground in computer science and artificial intelligence cireles. These areas were under increasing commercial press ure to provide devices which help and/or replace the human in his daily activity. This pressure required the use of logic in the modelling of human activity and organisa tion on the one hand and to provide the theoretical basis for the computer program constructs on the other.

Author : Janusz Kacprzyk,Eulalia Szmidt,Sławomir Zadrożny,Krassimir T. Atanassov,Maciej Krawczak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319668307

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Advances in Fuzzy Logic and Technology 2017 by Janusz Kacprzyk,Eulalia Szmidt,Sławomir Zadrożny,Krassimir T. Atanassov,Maciej Krawczak Pdf

This volume constitutes the proceedings of two collocated international conferences: EUSFLAT-2017 – the 10th edition of the flagship Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology held in Warsaw, Poland, on September 11–15, 2017, and IWIFSGN’2017 – The Sixteenth International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets, held in Warsaw on September 13–15, 2017. The conferences were organized by the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Department IV of Engineering Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society in collaboration with the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT), the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and various European universities. The aim of the EUSFLAT-2017 was t o bring together theoreticians and practitioners working on fuzzy logic, fuzzy systems, soft computing and related areas and to provide a platform for exchanging ideas and discussing the latest trends and ideas, while the aim of IWIFSGN’2017 was to discuss new developments in extensions of the concept of a fuzzy set, such as an intuitionistic fuzzy set, as well as other concepts, like that of a generalized net. The papers included, written by leading international experts, as well as the special sessions and panel discussions contribute to the development the field, strengthen collaborations and intensify networking.

Author : Rachael Briggs
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1459691873

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Free Logic by Rachael Briggs Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Thomas Shapcott Award. Free Logic is a collection of poems about love, logic, sin, gender, and imaginary animals. Transmuting techniques, forms and figures as she moves with enviable ease from themes of love through landscape to logic, Rachael Briggs evinces a relentless inventiveness and intelligence. Structured as eight sets of inventive poems, from 'Twelve Love Stories' which feature different kinds of love to 'Solve for X and Y' which pits characters against surreal problems to 'Tough Luck', a crown of sonnets which follows one narrator through a journey of unrequited love and identity discovery, this exciting new volume announces the arrival of a fresh and vital voice in Australian poetry.

Author : Heinrich Wansing
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789812799746

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Essays on Non-classical Logic by Heinrich Wansing Pdf

This book covers a broad range of up-to-date issues in non-classical logic that are of interest not only to philosophical and mathematical logicians but also to computer scientists and researchers in artificial intelligence. The problems addressed range from methodological issues in paraconsistent and deontic logic to the revision theory of truth and infinite Turing machines. The book identifies a number of important current trends in contemporary non-classical logic. Among them are dialogical and substructural logic, the classification of concepts of negation, truthmaker theory, and mathematical and foundational aspects of modal and temporal logic. Contents: Fine-Grained Theories of Time (P Blackburn); Revision Sequences and Computers with an Infinite Amount of Time (B LAwe); On Frege's Nightmare: A Combination of Intuitionistic, Free and Paraconsistent Logics (S Rahman); Truthmakers, Entailment and Necessity (S Read); Global Definability in Basic Modal Logic (M de Rijke & H Sturm); Ackermann's Implication for Typefree Logic (K Robering); Why Dialogical Logic? (H Rckert); Semantics for Constructive Negations (Y Shramko); Recent Trends in Paraconsistent Logic (M Urchs); Obligations, Authorities, and History Dependence (H Wansing). Readership: Graduate students and researchers in philosophical logic and mathematical logic, as well as computer scientists in artificial intelligence."

Author : Dale Jacquette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405149945

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A Companion to Philosophical Logic by Dale Jacquette Pdf

This collection of newly comissioned essays by international contributors offers a representative overview of the most important developments in contemporary philosophical logic. Presents controversies in philosophical implications and applications of formal symbolic logic. Surveys major trends and offers original insights.

Author : Timothy John Smiley,Thomas Baldwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0197262910

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Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge by Timothy John Smiley,Thomas Baldwin Pdf

Eleven papers by distinguished British and American philosophers are brought together in this volume. Five of the contributors engage in effect in a running debate about knowledge. How does knowledge relate to evidence? How reliable need one be to have knowledge? Once sceptical doubt has been introduced is there any untainted evidence to show that it is misplaced? Does verificationism succeed in showing that scepticism is untenable? Or is there a natural propensity for belief which explains why we are not in fact sceptics? The other six tackle questions about logic and its relation to language. Can one give a 'realist' account of logical truth without supposing that logic has a subject-matter? How do theories of descriptions fare when tested by their handling of functions? How can indirect speech report someone's use of words like 'this'? Does our language count for or against adopting second-order logic? These papers, given in the British Academy Philosophical Lectures series, are all examples of recent philosophy at its best.

Author : Benjamin Alire Saenz
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780544583528

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Saenz Pdf

A “mesmerizing, poetic exploration of family, friendship, love and loss” from the acclaimed author of Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. (New York Times Book Review) Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father, their loving Mexican American family, and his best friend, Samantha. But it’s senior year, and suddenly Sal is throwing punches, questioning everything, and realizing he no longer knows himself. If Sal’s not who he thought he was, who is he? This humor-infused, warmly humane look at universal questions of belonging is a triumph.

Author : James W. Garson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-14
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780521682299

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Modal Logic for Philosophers by James W. Garson Pdf

This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.

Author : Gregory S. Moss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351733847

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Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics by Gregory S. Moss Pdf

Winner of the hegelpd–prize 2022 Contemporary philosophical discourse has deeply problematized the possibility of absolute existence. Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics demonstrates that by reading Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic as a form of Absolute Dialetheism, Hegel’s logic of the concept can account for the possibility of absolute existence. Through a close examination of Hegel’s concept of self-referential universality in his Science of Logic, Moss demonstrates how Hegel’s concept of singularity is designed to solve a host of metaphysical and epistemic paradoxes central to this problematic. He illustrates how Hegel’s revolutionary account of universality, particularity, and singularity offers solutions to six problems that have plagued the history of Western philosophy: the problem of nihilism, the problem of instantiation, the problem of the missing difference, the problem of absolute empiricism, the problem of onto-theology, and the third man regress. Moss shows that Hegel’s affirmation and development of a revised ontological argument for God’s existence is designed to establish the necessity of absolute existence. By adopting a metaphysical reading of Richard Dien Winfield’s foundation free epistemology, Moss critically engages dominant readings and contemporary debates in Hegel scholarship. Hegel’s Foundation Free Metaphysics will appeal to scholars interested in Hegel, German Idealism, 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and contemporary European thought.

Author : Alessandro Torza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319183626

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Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language by Alessandro Torza Pdf

This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theory of mathematics. It advances an argument for the uniqueness of quantifier meaning in terms of Evert Beth’s notion of implicit definition and clarifies the oldest explicit formulation of quantifier variance: the one proposed by Rudolf Carnap. The volume further examines what it means that a quantifier can have multiple meanings and addresses how existential vagueness can induce vagueness in our modal notions. Finally, the book explores the role played by quantifiers with respect to various kinds of semantic paradoxes, the logicality issue, ontological commitment, and the behavior of quantifiers in intensional contexts.

Author : Puzzle Baron
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781615640324

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Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles by Puzzle Baron Pdf

Get your brain working with 200 grid-based logic puzzles from the Puzzle Baron! Filled with complex and fun brain teasers that range in difficulty, this book will put your mind into overdrive with hours of brain-challenging fun. Using the given backstory and list of clues, readers use pure logic to deduce the correct answer for each fiendishly tricky puzzle in Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles. Bring out your competitive side and check your stats against the average completion time, the record completion time, and the percentage of people who finish the puzzle. Check your work against the answer key and see how logical you really are! Perfect for adults or children, Puzzle Baron's Logic Puzzles is the ultimate challenge for those who love piecing clues and facts together. The brain is a wonderful thing to tease!

Author : Leon Horsten,Richard Pettigrew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472528292

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic by Leon Horsten,Richard Pettigrew Pdf

Logical methods are used in all area of philosophy. By introducing and advancing central to topics in the discipline, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic emphasizes the crucial role logic plays in understanding philosophical problems. Covering stages in the history of logic and of modern logic, this comprehensive Companion looks ahead to new areas of research and explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality. Experts in the field provide a mix of technical chapters that offer excellent encyclopaedias of results in the area and chapters of philosophical discussions that survey a range of philosophical positions. To facilitate further study, this volumes also includes a series of research tools such as a detailed index, an up-to-date list of resources and an annotated bibliography. Balancing technical exposition with philosophical discussion, The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophical Logic not only provides students and lecturers with the basis of a course in philosophical logic, it offers anyone working in this key area of contemporary philosophy a valuable research resource.