Exploring Logical Dynamics (Studies in Logic Language and Information)

Johan van Benthem

ISBN 10: 1575860589 / ISBN 13: 9781575860589

Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1996

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This book is an exploration of current trends in logical theories of information flow across various fields. Series: Studies in Logic, Language & Information. Num Pages: 341 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: PBCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 475. . 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. . . . . Codice articolo V9781575860589

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Titolo: Exploring Logical Dynamics (Studies in Logic...

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications

Data di pubblicazione: 1996

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: New

Edizione: prima edizione

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Riassunto:

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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'The book is beautifully written ... This is an important book, and one which is bound to raise interest around logical dynamics among people that had not been previously exposed to the specialised literature of the field. Like a true Seurat painting, the contours of the picture which van Benthem gives are still fuzzy, as in a hazy morning: the agenda of dynamicists is still rich with unsolved problems, and the rich notes at the end of each chapter are there to remind researchers about this.' Computer Journal