Lectures On Inductive Logic

Author : Jon Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780199666478

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Logic is a field studied mainly by researchers and students of philosophy, mathematics and computing. Inductive logic seeks to determine the extent to which the premisses of an argument entail its conclusion, aiming to provide a theory of how one should reason in the face of uncertainty. It has applications to decision making and artificial intelligence, as well as how scientists should reason when not in possession of the full facts. In this book, Jon Williamson embarks on a quest to find a general, reasonable, applicable inductive logic (GRAIL), all the while examining why pioneers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap did not entirely succeed in this task. Along the way he presents a general framework for the field, and reaches a new inductive logic, which builds upon recent developments in Bayesian epistemology (a theory about how strongly one should believe the various propositions that one can express). The book explores this logic in detail, discusses some key criticisms, and considers how it might be justified. Is this truly the GRAIL? Although the book presents new research, this material is well suited to being delivered as a series of lectures to students of philosophy, mathematics, or computing and doubles as an introduction to the field of inductive logic

Author : Jon Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780191644559

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Lectures on Inductive Logic by Jon Williamson Pdf

Logic is a field studied mainly by researchers and students of philosophy, mathematics and computing. Inductive logic seeks to determine the extent to which the premisses of an argument entail its conclusion, aiming to provide a theory of how one should reason in the face of uncertainty. It has applications to decision making and artificial intelligence, as well as how scientists should reason when not in possession of the full facts. In this book, Jon Williamson embarks on a quest to find a general, reasonable, applicable inductive logic (GRAIL), all the while examining why pioneers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and Rudolf Carnap did not entirely succeed in this task. Along the way he presents a general framework for the field, and reaches a new inductive logic, which builds upon recent developments in Bayesian epistemology (a theory about how strongly one should believe the various propositions that one can express). The book explores this logic in detail, discusses some key criticisms, and considers how it might be justified. Is this truly the GRAIL? Although the book presents new research, this material is well suited to being delivered as a series of lectures to students of philosophy, mathematics, or computing and doubles as an introduction to the field of inductive logic

Author : Sir William Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Logic
ISBN : UOM:39015070500668

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by Sir William Hamilton Pdf

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Logic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNAUKC

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Elementary Lessons in Logic by William Stanley Jevons Pdf

Author : Thomas Fowler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1330194055

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The Elements of Inductive Logic by Thomas Fowler Pdf

Excerpt from The Elements of Inductive Logic: Designed Mainly for the Use of Students in the Universities The precise object of the following pages is (without pre-supposing any technical acquaintance with logical terminology) to enable a student of average intelligence to acquire for himself an elementary knowledge of the main problems, principles, and rules of Deductive logic. They are not designed to save him the trouble of afterwards consulting more advanced text-books, either in his own or other languages. The English student who wishes to gain an exact and detailed knowledge of the relations of Deduction to Induction, and consequently of the true place and value of the former process in any special science, must still have recourse to the works of Mr. Mill; or, if he wish to trace the history of logical terms and doctrines (one of the most important chapters in the history of both ancient and modern literature), he must still consult Sir W. Hamilton's lectures, and the Appendices and Notes of Dr. Mansel to Aldrich's Logic. To these works, as well as to Archbishop Whately's luminous Chapter on Fallacies, and to the original and suggestive work of Mr. James Mill on the Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mini, the Author must, once for all, express his obligations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10043372

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton Pdf

Author : William Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : First philosophy
ISBN : RMS:RMS2LBIF000011621$$$E

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Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton Pdf

"The following Lectures on Metaphysics constitute the first portion of the Biennial Course which the author was in the habit of delivering during the period of his occupation of the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. The Author himself, adopting the Kantian division of the mental faculties into those of Knowledge, Feeling, and Conation, considers the Philosophy of Mind as comprehending, in relation to each of these, the three great subdivisions of Psychology, or the Science of the Phenomena of Mind; Nomology, or the Science of its Laws; and Ontology, or the Science of Results and Inferences. The term Metaphysics, in its strictest sense, is synonymous with the last of these subdivisions; while, in its widest sense, it may be regarded as including the first also, --the second being, in practice at least, if not in scientific accuracy, usually distributed among other departments of Philosophy. The following Lectures cannot be considered as embracing the whole province of Metaphysics in either of the above senses"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

Author : George Tourlakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 113943943X

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Lectures in Logic and Set Theory: Volume 2, Set Theory by George Tourlakis Pdf

This two-volume work bridges the gap between introductory expositions of logic or set theory on one hand, and the research literature on the other. It can be used as a text in an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in mathematics, computer science, or philosophy. The volumes are written in a user-friendly conversational lecture style that makes them equally effective for self-study or class use. Volume II, on formal (ZFC) set theory, incorporates a self-contained 'chapter 0' on proof techniques so that it is based on formal logic, in the style of Bourbaki. The emphasis on basic techniques will provide the reader with a solid foundation in set theory and provides a context for the presentation of advanced topics such as absoluteness, relative consistency results, two expositions of Godel's constructible universe, numerous ways of viewing recursion, and a chapter on Cohen forcing.

Author : Jevons (William Stanley)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Logic
ISBN : RMS:RMS34IST000010825$$$Y

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Elementary Lessons in Logic by Jevons (William Stanley) Pdf

Author : Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780080931692

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Inductive Logic by Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods Pdf

Inductive Logic is number ten in the 11-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. While there are many examples were a science split from philosophy and became autonomous (such as physics with Newton and biology with Darwin), and while there are, perhaps, topics that are of exclusively philosophical interest, inductive logic — as this handbook attests — is a research field where philosophers and scientists fruitfully and constructively interact. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in Inductive Logic, including probability theory and decision theory. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in the history of logic, the history of philosophy, and any discipline, such as mathematics, computer science, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration. Chapter on the Port Royal contributions to probability theory and decision theory Serves as a singular contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th century Contains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights

Author : John Venn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1440054150

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The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic by John Venn Pdf

Excerpt from The Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic This work contains the substance of Lectures delivered during J-a number of years in Cambridge; at first to members of my own College, and afterwards to students generally in the University. Although the main outlines were sketched long ago, and a large portion of the materials had been delivered for several years in nearly the form now presented, the chapters here offered to the reader have been throughout written out afresh for the present occasion. As many readers will probably perceive, the main original guiding influence with me, - as with most of those of the middle generation, and especially with most of those who approached Logic with a previous mathematical or scientific training, - was that of Mill. But, as they may also perceive, this influence has subsequently generated the relation of criticism and divergence quite as much as that of acceptance; though I still continue to regard the general attitude towards phenomena, which Mill took up as a logician, to be the soundest and most useful for scientific study. This attitude of the scientific logician, as I conceive arid interpret it, has been so fully explained in the introductory chapter, that I need only say that it is based upon that fundamental Duality in accordance with which it becomes the function of the logician to reduce to order, to interpret, and to forecast the complex of external objects which we call the phenomenal world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Logic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004490178

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Elementary Lessons in Logic : Deductive and Inductive by William Stanley Jevons Pdf

Author : Francis William Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Causation
ISBN : HARVARD:HNTK53

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Lectures on Logic by Francis William Newman Pdf

Author : Jan J.T. Srzednicki,Z. Stachniak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400927414

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S. Leśniewski’s Lecture Notes in Logic by Jan J.T. Srzednicki,Z. Stachniak Pdf

Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939) was one of the leading Polish logicians and founders of the Warsaw School of Logic whose membership included, beside himself, Jan Lukasiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Alfred Tarski, and many others. In his lifetime LeSniewski published only a few hundred pages. He produced many important results in many areas of mathematics; these stood in various relations to each other, and to materials produced by others, and, in time, created more and more editorial problems. Very many were left unpublished at the time of his death. Then in 1944 in the fire of Warsaw the whole of this material was burned and lost -a considerable loss since a great deal of what is important could have been reconstructed from these notes. The present publication aims at presenting unique Lesniewski's materials from alternative sources comprising lecture notes taken during some of Lesniewski's lectures and seminars delivered at the University of Warsaw be tween the two world wars. The editors are aware of the limitations of student notes which cannot compensate for the loss of the original materials. However, they are unique in reflecting Lesniewski's ideas as he himself presented them. Already at the time of his death it was realized that these notes would provide a unique access to Lesniewski's own thought as well as a valuable record of some of the activities of the Warsaw School of Logic.

Author : Brian Skyrms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005047884

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Choice and Chance by Brian Skyrms Pdf