Predicate Logic: The Semantic Foundations of Logic - Softcover

Epstein, Richard L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534558461 ISBN 13: 9780534558468

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2001

Synopsis

A presentation of the fundamental ideas that generate the formal systems of predicate logic. This text clearly relates predicate logic to reasoning in ordinary language, with hundreds of examples of formalization, with a clear theory of how to formalize ordinary arguments. The writing is exceptionally clear and easy to read.

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Review

"This book is for philosophers and researchers in artificial intelligence or natural language processing. It is dedicated to designing a foundation for as many logics as possible....can be worthwhile reading." --Computing Reviews"This book bridges a gap often felt by students of the humanities when starting with formal logic in the style of the usual textbook, and it intends to make the (hidden) relations of logic and language more transparent. . . .this is not an introduction to first-order logic as usual in mathematical logic, but an important supplement to such an introduction for the non-mathematician as well as for a philosophically minded mathematician."--Zentralblatt fur Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete Mathematics Abstracts"

Synopsis

Having served time at several major universities, Epstein now heads the Advanced Reasoning Forum. Here he introduces the most standard way that logicians parse the internal structure of propositions, seeking to find or suggest agreements about language, the world, and reasoning that can account in a uniform way for extensions of propositional logic

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534558461
• ISBN 13: 9780534558468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480