Logical or Ludicrous

Logical or Ludicrous
Author: Martin Henrichs
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480990329

Logical or Ludicrous By: Martin Henrichs Becoming an adult during the 1950s, Martin Henrichs holds many of the values that were important during that time. In order to keep these values intact, he organized a local conservative group. For his message to be heard, Henrichs decided to share his life experiences, such as smuggling letters out of the Soviet Union to Jews in America and experimenting with the sexual revolution. He gives examples of how much America has changed and may be spinning out of control.

Creation and Tradition in Language

Creation and Tradition in Language
Author: J. Peter Maher
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027209049

Interest in word-meaning is on the increase among mainstream linguists again after a half-century of neglect. During this interval progress in phonology and syntax was great, but further progress in these sub-disciplines will remain blocked until it is recognized that the prime functional unit of speech is the word, that the central problem of language theory is lexis. Word-meaning is typically complicated by changes across time; for a theory of language creativity, these effects must be discerned from spontaneous creation. The articles brought together in this volume attempt to illuminate, on the basis of particular lexical studies, the dynamics of perception and word-meaning, of language and mind. [No further volumes appeared]

Propositional Logic

Propositional Logic
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2023-06-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

What Is Propositional Logic The field of logic that is known as propositional calculus. There are a few other names for it, including propositional logic, statement logic, sentential calculus, sentential logic, and occasionally zeroth-order logic. It examines propositions as well as the relations that exist between propositions, as well as the formulation of arguments that are founded on propositions. By combining individual statements with various logical connectives, one can create compound propositions. Atomic propositions are those that don't have any logical connectives in them, as the name suggests. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Propositional calculus Chapter 2: Axiom Chapter 3: First-order logic Chapter 4: Modus tollens Chapter 5: Consistency Chapter 6: Contradiction Chapter 7: Rule of inference Chapter 8: List of rules of inference Chapter 9: Deduction theorem Chapter 10: Theory (mathematical logic) (II) Answering the public top questions about propositional logic. (III) Real world examples for the usage of propositional logic in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of propositional logic' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of propositional logic.

In Praise of Comedy

In Praise of Comedy
Author: James Feibleman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000579239

First published in 1939, the original blurb reads: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy. Today, when laughter is stifled in so many countries, an exposition of comedy shows it to have a universal and necessary character. Comedy, as its natures reveals, is one criterion of the state of human culture; it is highly contemporary and requires freedom – but freedom for adventure, not for routine. After a chapter devoted to the explanation of a logical theory of comedy, the modern comedians are examined, and the humour of every one, from the Marx Brothers to surrealism, from Gertrude Stein to Mickey Mouse, from James Joyce to Charlie Chaplin, is shown to be a constant, inherent in the same set of unchanging conditions.

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction

The Logic of Wish and Fear: New Perspectives on Genres of Western Fiction
Author: Ben La Farge
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137465689

Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy.

A Functorial Model Theory

A Functorial Model Theory
Author: Cyrus F. Nourani
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-02-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1926895924

This book is an introduction to a functorial model theory based on infinitary language categories. The author introduces the properties and foundation of these categories before developing a model theory for functors starting with a countable fragment of an infinitary language. He also presents a new technique for generating generic models with categories by inventing infinite language categories and functorial model theory. In addition, the book covers string models, limit models, and functorial models.