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Author | : Richard L Epstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-12-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781938421310 |
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This work extends classical predicate logic by showing how to formalize reasoning that involves adverbs, relative adjectives, conjunctions of terms, conjunctions of modifiers, and conjunctions of predicates as part of the internal structure of atomic predicates. Descriptive names and functions, and non-referring names are also analyzed.
Author | : Richard L Epstein |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018-10-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1938421345 |
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This series of volumes is meant to extend the scope of what we can formalize in classical predicate logic, and in doing so see the limitations of what can be done. The first section of this volume presents classical predicate logic with equality. In the second section, that logic is extended to formalize reasoning that involves adverbs and relative adjectives by viewing those as modifiers of simpler predicates. What is normally taken to be an atomic predicate, such as "barking loudly", can then have internal structure. Reasoning that involves conjunctions of terms, as in "Tom and Dick lifted the table", conjunctions of modifiers, conjunctions of predicates, and disjunctions of predicates can also be formalized by viewing them as part of the internal structure of atomic predicates. Many questions about the nature of formalizing arise in doing this. The internal structure of names is the topic of the third and last section. Names for functions are used in classical predicate logic to form complex names. In our ordinary reasoning we also use descriptions to form functions, such as "the wife of", and descriptions to form names, such as "the cat that scratched Zoe". To reason with those we can take account of their internal structure by dropping the assumption that every name must refer to a specific thing. The formal systems that are developed here are meant to help us understand how to reason well. Many worked examples show how to use them. Those examples also uncover limitations of the formal work. Throughout this series of volumes, the work proceeds by abstracting and creating formal models to formalize reasoning. By paying attention to the process of abstracting we gain insight into why we consider some reasoning to be good and some reasoning bad, and insight also into the deeper assumptions we make about the world on which our judgments rely.
Author | : Richard L Epstein |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0983452199 |
Download Predicate Logic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The forms and scope of logic rest on assumptions of how language and reasoning connect to experience. In this volume an analysis of meaning and truth provides a foundation for studying modern propositional and predicate logics. Chapters on propositional logic, parsing propositions, and meaning, truth, and reference give a basis for criteria that can be used to judge formalizations of ordinary language arguments. Over 120 worked examples of formalizations of propositions and arguments illustrate the scope and limitations of modern logic, as analyzed in chapters on identity, quantifiers, descriptive names, functions, and second-order logic. The chapter on second-order logic illustrates how different conceptions of predicates and propositions do not lead to a common basis for quantification over predicates, as they do for quantification over things. Notable for its clarity of presentation, and supplemented by many exercises, this volume is suitable for philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, and computer scientists who wish to better understand the tools they use in formalizing reasoning.
Author | : Richard L. Epstein |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1938421698 |
Download Time and Space in Formal Logic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Time and Space in Formal Logic begins with an analysis of assumptions about how logic and language relate. Then in the first section, times are taken to be established by true propositions, and those are related as before and after with temporal propositional connectives. In the second section, times are treated as things that can be picked out and counted, leading to a predicate logic that allows for quantification over times. In the third section, locations in space are also treated as things that can be picked out and counted, leading to a predicate logic that allows for quantification over both times and locations. Many applications of the formal systems to formalizing ordinary language propositions and inferences clarify better the assumptions we make in reasoning taking account of time and space by making those precise in the formal systems. Appendices on events, branching times, intentions, and descriptive names add to the scope of the work.
Author | : Epstein Richard L |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-07-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1938421531 |
Download An Introduction to Formal Logic: Second Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
• Intended for a course for students in philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, or computer science, and excellent for self-study. • Motivation is given for each formal concept and each step in building a formal logic in terms of formalizing reasoning. Summaries are given at important junctures in the book to keep students aware of what they are doing and where they are going. • Criteria of formalization are developed and applied to formalizing ordinary language reasoning in an example-analysis format. • More than 300 worked examples. • More than 500 exercises with answers available on the web.
Author | : Richard L Epstein |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0983452172 |
Download Propositional Logics 3rd edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents the history, philosophy, and mathematics of the major systems of propositional logic. Classical logic, modal logics, many-valued logics, intuitionism, paraconsistent logics, and dependent implication are examined in separate chapters. Each begins with a motivation in the originators' own terms, followed by the standard formal semantics, syntax, and completeness theorem. The chapters on the various logics are largely self-contained so that the book can be used as a reference. An appendix summarizes the formal semantics and axiomatizations of the logics. The view that unifies the exposition is that propositional logics comprise a spectrum: as the aspect of propositions under consideration varies, the logic varies. Each logic is shown to fall naturally within a general framework for semantics. A theory of translations between logics is presented that allows for further comparisons, and necessary conditions are given for a translation to preserve meaning. For this third edition the material has been re-organized to make the text easier to study, and a new section on paraconsistent logics with simple semantics has been added which challenges standard views on the nature of consequence relations. The text includes worked examples and hundreds of exercises, from routine to open problems, making the book with its clear and careful exposition ideal for courses or individual study.
Author | : Richard L Epstein |
Publisher | : Advanced Reasoning Forum |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2021-07-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1938421574 |
Download Language and the World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book presents a new perspective on ways we encounter the world with our languages. There are two kinds of languages. Some direct speakers to encounter the world as made up of things. Others direct speakers to encounter the world as the flow of all with no idea of change, for there is no thing to change, only differing descriptions of the flow. The essays by Richard L. Epstein set out this division of languages and explore its significance for linguistics, metaphysics, thought, meaning, logic, and ethics. The other essays, by Dorothy Lee, Benjamin Lee Whorf, M. Dale Kinkade, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Benson Mates, extend, or contradict, or support those ideas, leading to a large view of how we talk and understand, and how that affects how we live.
Author | : Richard L. Epstein |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2011-12-18 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1400841550 |
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In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not only of arithmetic, but also of group theory, field theory, and linear orderings. These lead to the formalization of the real numbers and Euclidean plane geometry. The scope and limitations of modern logic are made clear in these formalizations. The book provides detailed explanations of all proofs and the insights behind the proofs, as well as detailed and nontrivial examples and problems. The book has more than 550 exercises. It can be used in advanced undergraduate or graduate courses and for self-study and reference. Classical Mathematical Logic presents a unified treatment of material that until now has been available only by consulting many different books and research articles, written with various notation systems and axiomatizations.
Author | : Nicholas J.J. Smith |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691151636 |
Download Logic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides an essential introduction to classical logic.
Author | : Artemis Alexiadou |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1998-10-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027282293 |
Download Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the Determiner Phrase Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume presents a cross-section of current research on the internal syntax of ‘Determiner Phrases` (DPs), with special emphasis on the analysis of DPs modified by genitival, adjectival and other non-finite attributes. Possessors, Predicates and Movement in the DP illustrates clearly the ongoing debate over older and more recent approaches to the syntax of DPs in particular in the wake of the minimalist program (Chomsky 1995) and Kayne’s antisymmetry hypothesis (Kayne 1994). The relative theoretical coherence among the contributions permits detailed comparison of specific syntactic proposals, providing a solid basis for further debate. Several of the papers address the syntactic questions in parallel with related semantic or morphological issues. The value of this collection to the study of Universal Grammar is also underlined by its comparative bias. Analyses of Germanic, Romance and Balkan languages figure prominently, and a number of new empirical generalizations within and between languages are discussed.