An Introduction to Formal Logic: Second Edition - Couverture souple

Epstein, Richard L

 
9781938421525: An Introduction to Formal Logic: Second Edition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1938421523 ISBN 13 : 9781938421525
Editeur : Advanced Reasoning Forum, 2020

Synopsis

- Intended for a course for students in philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, or computer science, and excellent for self-study.

- Motivation is given for each formal concept and each step in building a formal logic in terms of formalizing reasoning. Summaries are given at important junctures in the book to keep students aware of what they are doing and where they are going.

- Criteria of formalization are developed and applied to formalizing ordinary language reasoning in an example-analysis format.

- More than 300 worked examples.

- More than 500 exercises with answers available on the web.

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard L. Epstein received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in mathematics and then studied philosophy in Wellington, New Zeland and later with Benson Mates at Berkeley. He has been a Fulbright Fellow to Brazil and a National Academy of Sciences Scholar to Poland. He has written books on propositional logics, computability, and predicate logic. In his recent work has enlarged the scope of modern formal logic considerably. He is the Head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.

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Éditeur
Advanced Reasoning Forum
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1938421523
ISBN 13 
9781938421525
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
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Personne responsable
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