Logic and Information

Devlin, Keith

ISBN 10: 0521410304 / ISBN 13: 9780521410304

Edité par Cambridge University Press September 27, 1991, Cambridge [England] ; New York, 1991

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307 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 458374.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Logic and Information
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press September 27, 1991, Cambridge [England] ; New York
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521410304
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521410304
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser degree, but the search for artificial intelligence has been hampered by our inability to create a theory that covers both of these characteristics. In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Professor Keith Devlin argues that to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition, we must broaden our concept of logic. For these purposes, Devlin introduces the concept of the infon, a quantum of information, and merges it with situations, a mathematical construction generalising the notion of sets developed by Barwise and Perry at Stanford University in order to study the meaning of natural languages. He develops and describes the theory here in general and intuitive terms, and discusses its relevance to a variety of concerns such as artificial intelligence, cognition, natural language and communication.