Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity - Rilegato

Anderson, Alan Ross; Belnap, Nuel D.; Dunn, J. Michael

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ISBN 10: 0691073392 ISBN 13: 9780691073392

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1992

Riassunto

In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old, that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the subject by most of the top people working in the area.

Originally the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable, and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro. Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition to the volume.

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Book by Anderson Alan Ross Belnap Nuel D Dunn J Michael

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691073392
• ISBN 13: 9780691073392
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 787
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