This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Deductive inference is usually regarded as being "tautological" or "analytical": the information conveyed by the conclusion is contained in ...

Truth diagrams (TDs) are introduced as a novel graphical representation for propositional logic (PL). To demonstrate their epistemic efficacy a set of 28 concepts are proposed that any comprehensive ...

Modal logic, an extension of classical logic, investigates the modes of truth such as necessity and possibility. Its development has been closely intertwined with advances in proof theory, a field ...

when thinking about logical agents, we imagine that the agent has a knowledge base (KB for short) that contains logical sentences that describe the state of the world you could think of a KB as a ...

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Philosophy of the Social Sciences, MSc in Economics and Philosophy, MSc in Philosophy of Science and MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. This course ...

Aristotle's logic provides the foundation for the dialectical theory of change. The term contradiction is one we will return to in explaining dialectics, and also organisational science and systems ...