Tarski's World: Version 4.0 for MS Windows (Lecture Notes)

Barwise, Jon; Etchemendy, John

ISBN 10: 1881526283 / ISBN 13: 9781881526285

Published by Center for the Study of Language and Inf (edition 1), 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tarski's World: Version 4.0 for MS Windows (Lecture Notes)
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881526283
• ISBN 13: 9781881526285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Tarski's World 4.0 is an innovative and enjoyable way to introduce your students to the language of first-order logic. Using this program, students quickly master the meaning of the connectives and quantifiers, and soon become fluent in the symbolic language at the core of modern logic. Tarski's World allows the students to build three-dimensional worlds, and to describe them in first-order logic. They evaluate the sentences in the constructed worlds, and if their evaluation is incorrect, the program provides them with a game that leads them to understand where they went wrong. The package is intended as a supplement to any standard logic text, or for use by anyone who wants to learn the language. The disk and manual contain over a hundred exercises from very basic to highly sophisticated.

About the Author

Jon Barwise (1942-2000) was a mathematician, philosopher and logician. He taught at the Universities of Yale and Wisconsin before becoming the first director of the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. From 1990 until his death he was professor of philosophy at Indiana University. John Etchemendy has been professor of philosophy at Stanford since 1983. In 2000 he became Provost of Stanford University.