The semantic foundations of logic. Predicate logic - Hardcover

Epstein, Richard L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195087607 ISBN 13: 9780195087604

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This book presents modern logic as the formalization of reasoning that needs and deserves a semantic foundation. Chapters on propositional logic; parsing propositions; and meaning, truth and reference give the reader a basis for establishing criteria that can be used to judge formalizations of ordinary language arguments. Over 120 worked examples illustrate the scope and limitations of modern logic, as analyzed in chapters on identity, quantifiers, descriptive names, and functions. The chapter on second-order logic shows 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 will be invaluable for philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, and computer scientists who wish to better understand the tools they use in formal reasoning.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0195087607
• ISBN 13: 9780195087604
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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