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Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Logic with Trees
Author: Colin HowsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113478550X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Logic With Trees is a new and original introduction to modern formal logic. Unlike most texts, it also contains discussions on more philosophical issues such as truth, conditionals and modal logic. It presents the formal material with clarity, preferring informal explanations and arguments to intimidatingly rigorous development. Worked examples and excercises enable the readers to check their progress. Logic With Trees equips students with * a complete and clear account of the truth-tree system for first order logic * the importance of logic and its relevance to many different disciplines * the skills to grasp sophisticated formal reasoning techniques necessary to explore complex metalogic * the ability to contest claims that `ordinary' reasoning is well represented by formal first order logic The issues covered include a thorough discussion of truth-functional and full first order logic, using the truth-tree or semantic tableau approach. Completeness and Soundness proofs are given for both truth-functional and first order trees. Much use is made of induction, which is presented in a clear and consistent manner. There is also discussion of alternative deductive systems, an introduction to transfinite numbers and categoricity, the Lowenhein-Skolem theories and the celebrated findings of Godel and Church. The book concludes with an account of Kripke's attempted solution of the liar paradox and a discussion of the weakness of truth-functional account of conditionals. Particularly useful to those who favour critical accounts of formal reasoning, it will be of interest to students of philosophy at first level and beyond and also students of mathematics and computer science.
The Foundations of Geometry
Author: David HilbertPublisher:
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Category : Geometry
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Mathematical Logic
Author: Joseph R. ShoenfieldPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 135143330X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This classic introduction to the main areas of mathematical logic provides the basis for a first graduate course in the subject. It embodies the viewpoint that mathematical logic is not a collection of vaguely related results, but a coherent method of attacking some of the most interesting problems, which face the mathematician. The author presents the basic concepts in an unusually clear and accessible fashion, concentrating on what he views as the central topics of mathematical logic: proof theory, model theory, recursion theory, axiomatic number theory, and set theory. There are many exercises, and they provide the outline of what amounts to a second book that goes into all topics in more depth. This book has played a role in the education of many mature and accomplished researchers.
Mathematical Logic and Its Applications
Author: Dimiter G. SkordevPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461308976
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The Summer School and Conference on Mathematical Logic and its Applications, September 24 - October 4, 1986, Druzhba, Bulgaria, was honourably dedicated to the 80-th anniversary of Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978), one of the greatest scientists of this (and not only of this) century. The main topics of the Meeting were: Logic and the Foundation of Mathematics; Logic and Computer Science; Logic, Philosophy, and the Study of Language; Kurt Godel's life and deed. The scientific program comprised 5 kinds of activities, namely: a) a Godel Session with 3 invited lecturers b) a Summer School with 17 invited lecturers c) a Conference with 13 contributed talks d) Seminar talks (one invited and 12 with no preliminary selection) e) three discussions The present volume reflects an essential part of this program, namely 14 of the invited lectures and all of the contributed talks. Not presented in the volltme remai ned si x of the i nvi ted lecturers who di d not submi t texts: Yu. Ershov - The Language of!:-expressions and its Semantics; S. Goncharov - Mathematical Foundations of Semantic Programming; Y. Moschovakis - Foundations of the Theory of Algorithms; N. Nagornyj - Is Realizability of Propositional Formulae a GBdelean Property; N. Shanin - Some Approaches to Finitization of Mathematical Analysis; V. Uspensky - Algorithms and Randomness - joint with A.N.
Logic as a Liberal Art
Author: R. E. HouserPublisher: Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813232341
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In the twenty-first century there are two ways to study logic. The more recent approach is symbolic logic. The history of teaching logic since World War II, however, casts doubt on the idea that symbolic logic is best for a first logic course. Logic as a Liberal Art is designed as part of a minority approach, teaching logic in the "verbal" way, in the student's "natural" language, the approach invented by Aristotle. On utilitarian grounds alone, this "verbal" approach is superior for a first course in logic, for the whole range of students. For millennia, this "verbal" approach to logic was taught in conjunction with grammar and rhetoric, christened the trivium. The decline in teaching grammar and rhetoric in American secondary schools has led Dr. Rollen Edward Houser to develop this book. The first part treats grammar, rhetoric, and the essential nature of logic. Those teachers who look down upon rhetoric are free, of course, to skip those lessons. The treatment of logic itself follows Aristotle's division of the three acts of the mind (Prior Analytics 1.1). Formal logic is then taken up in Aristotle's order, with Parts on the logic of Terms, Propositions, and Arguments. The emphasis in Logic as a Liberal Art is on learning logic through doing problems. Consequently, there are more problems in each lesson than would be found, for example, in many textbooks. In addition, a special effort has been made to have easy, medium, and difficult problems in each Problem Set. In this way the problem sets are designed to offer a challenge to all students, from those most in need of a logic course to the very best students.
A Survey of Symbolic Logic
Author: Clarence Irving LewisPublisher:
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Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic
Author: Alonzo ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Includes lists of members.
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
Author: The Development of Symbolic Logic
Author: Arthur Thomas ShearmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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