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 ...

Girard introduced phase semantics as a complete set-theoretic semantics of linear logic, and Okada modified phase-semantic completeness proofs to obtain normalform theorems. On the basis of these ...

The philosophy of language and propositional attitudes investigates the complex interplay between linguistic structures and the mental states that underpin communication, thought, belief and behaviour ...

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 ...

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For some decades now it has been a vogue to disparage the confession that the Scriptures are the very Word of God with the claim that since the Bible is made up of “propositional truth” it cannot ...

(1) Humans (for example, artists) have the intention to convey thought to others. This thought is embodied. Conceptual metaphor exemplifies one kind of cognitive mechanism through which this principle ...