Inferences with Ignorance – Logics of Questions - Softcover

Pelis, Michal

 
9788024631813: Inferences with Ignorance – Logics of Questions
Softcover
ISBN 10: 8024631814 ISBN 13: 9788024631813
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2017

Synopsis

Inferences with Ignorance focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as part of a logical apparatus, Michal Pelis also emphasizes the role of question-asking in communication. The book presents options for formalizing questions using sets of "direct answers," demonstrates where questions are used in inferences, and explores asking questions and seeking answers as important components of everyday communication, proposing ways of using questions within a formal system that can capture a change in knowledge during this simple communication.

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About the Author

Michal Pelis is a lecturer in the Department of Logic at Charles University, Prague, and an associate scientist in the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
8024631814
ISBN 13 
9788024631813
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
100