Exploring Logical Dynamics

Johan F. A. K. van Benthem (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

341 Seiten

1996
Centre for the Study of Language & Information (Verlag)
978-1-57586-058-9 (ISBN)

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This book is an exploration of current trends in logical theories of information flow across various fields.

This book is an exploration of current trends in logical theories of information flow across various fields, such as belief revision in computer science or dynamic semantics in linguistics. It provides one mathematical perspective encompassing all of these. This framework generates a new agenda of questions concerning dynamic inference and dynamic operators. The result is a mathematical theory of process models, simulations between these, and modal languages over them, which is developed in quite some detail. New results include theorems on expressive completeness, representation of styles of inference, and new kinds of decidable remodeling for standard logics. This theory is also confronted with practice in computer science, linguistics and philosophy.

Johan van Benthem is University Professor of pure and applied logic at the University of Amsterdam, the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and the Weilun Visiting Professor of Humanities at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Introduction; 1. Cognitive actions; 2. Dynamification; 3. Technical tools; 4. Process simulation and definability; 5. Relational algebra of process operations; 6. Two-level static-dynamic architecture; 7. Dynamic styles of inference; 8. Decidable remodelling: arrow logic; 9. Modal foundations for predicate logic; 10. Computational process theories; 11. Imperative aspects of logic programs; 12. Understanding natural language; 13. Philosophical repercussions; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1996
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Logic Language and Information
Verlagsort	Stanford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	475 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
ISBN-10	1-57586-058-9 / 1575860589
ISBN-13	978-1-57586-058-9 / 9781575860589
Zustand	Neuware