Exploring Logical Dynamics
Johan F. a. K. Van Benthem(Author)
The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications (Publisher)
Published on 28. August 1996
Book
Hardback
341 pages
978-1-57586-059-6 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
632 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57586-059-6 (9781575860596)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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.