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| Author | : Peter Flach |
| Publisher | : Wiley |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 1994-04-07 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 9780471942153 |
An introduction to Prolog programming for artificial intelligence covering both basic and advanced AI material. A unique advantage to this work is the combination of AI, Prolog and Logic. Each technique is accompanied by a program implementing it. Seeks to simplify the basic concepts of logic programming. Contains exercises and authentic examples to help facilitate the understanding of difficult concepts.
| Author | : Arnold vander Nat |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2010-03-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1135218706 |
Perfect for students with no background in logic or philosophy, Simple Formal Logic provides a full system of logic adequate to handle everyday and philosophical reasoning. By keeping out artificial techniques that aren’t natural to our everyday thinking process, Simple Formal Logic trains students to think through formal logical arguments for themselves, ingraining in them the habits of sound reasoning. Simple Formal Logic features: a companion website with abundant exercise worksheets, study supplements (including flashcards for symbolizations and for deduction rules), and instructor’s manual two levels of exercises for beginning and more advanced students a glossary of terms, abbreviations and symbols. This book arose out of a popular course that the author has taught to all types of undergraduate students at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches formal logic without the artificial methods–methods that often seek to solve farfetched logical problems without any connection to everyday and philosophical argumentation. The result is a book that teaches easy and more intuitive ways of grappling with formal logic–and is intended as a rigorous yet easy-to-follow first course in logical thinking for philosophy majors and non-philosophy majors alike.
| Author | : Agustín Rayo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2013-06-27 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0199662622 |
Our conception of logical space is the set of distinctions we use to navigate the world. Agustín Rayo argues that this is shaped by acceptance or rejection of 'just is'-statements: e.g. 'to be composed of water just is to be composed of H2O'. He offers a novel conception of metaphysical possibility, and a new trivialist philosophy of mathematics.
| Author | : David Bostock |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2012-04-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191631221 |
David Bostock presents a critical appraisal of Bertrand Russell's philosophy from 1900 to 1924—a period that is considered to be the most important in his career. Russell developed his theory of logic from 1900 to 1910, and over those years wrote the famous work Principia Mathematica with A. N. Whitehead. Bostock explores Russell's development of 'logical atomism', which applies this logic to problems in the theory of knowledge and in metaphysics, and was central to his philosophical work from 1910 to 1924. This book is the first to focus on this important period of Russell's development, examining the three key areas of logic and mathematics, knowledge, and metaphysics, and demonstrating the enduring value of his work in these areas.
| Author | : Linda Hutcheon |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2003-09-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134937547 |
The edge of irony, says Linda Hutcheon, is always a social and political edge. Irony depends upon interpretation; it happens in the tricky, unpredictable space between expression and understanding. Irony's Edge is a fascinating, compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and the effects of irony. It sets out, for the first time, a sustained, clear analysis of the theory and the political contexts of irony, using a wide range of references from contemporary culture. Examples extend from Madonna to Wagner, from a clever quip in conversation to a contentious exhibition in a museum. Irony's Edge outlines and then challenges all the major existing theories of irony, providing the most comprehensive and critically challengin theory of irony to date.
| Author | : M. Makkai |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2006-11-15 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3540371001 |
| Author | : Sandra Peart |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780415143356 |
| Author | : Paul A. Gregory |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2008-08-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 144111145X |
W. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the recent resurgence of the view that empirical science is our best avenue to knowledge. His views, however, have not been well understood. Critics charge that Quine's naturalized epistemology is circular and that it cannot be normative. Yet, such criticisms stem from a cluster of fundamental traditional assumptions regarding language, theory, and the knowing subject - the very presuppositions that Quine is at pains to reject. Through investigation of Quine's views regarding language, knowledge, and reality, the author offers a new interpretation of Quine's naturalism. The naturalism/anti-naturalism debate can be advanced only by acknowledging and critiquing the substantial theoretical commitments implicit in the traditional view. Gregory argues that the responses to the circularity and non-normativity objections do just that. His analysis further reveals that Quine's departure from the tradition penetrates the conception of the knowing subject, and he thus offers a new and engaging defence of Quine's naturalism.
| Author | : Colin McGinn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780199262632 |
Identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are fundamental philosophical concerns. Colin McGinn treats them both philosophically and logically, aiming for maximum clarity and minimum pointless formalism. He contends that there are real logical properties that challenge naturalistic metaphysical outlooks. These concepts are not definable, though we can say a good deal about how they work. The aim of Logical Properties is to bring philosophy back to philosophical logic.
| Author | : Richard T.W. Arthur |
| Publisher | : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 460 |
| Release | : 2016-11-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1770486488 |
In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern “informal logic” with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject, from Pythagoras, the Stoics, and Indian Buddhist logic, through Lewis Carroll, Venn, and Boole, to Russell, Frege, and Monty Python. A previous edition of this book appeared under the title Natural Deduction. This new edition adds clarifications of the notions of explanation, validity and formal validity, a more detailed discussion of derivation strategies, and another rule of inference, Reiteration.
