Diamonds and Defaults

Studies in Pure and Applied Intensional Logic
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 1993
ISBN: 978-90-481-4286-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 229, 388 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 583 g

Reihe: Synthese Library

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at a Seminar on Intensional Logic held at the University of Amsterdam during the period September 1990-May 1991. Modal logic, either as a topic or as a tool, is common to most of the papers in this volume. A number of the papers are con­ cerned with what may be called well-known or traditional modal systems, but, as a quick glance through this volume will reveal, this by no means implies that they walk the beaten tracks. In­ deed, such contributions display new directions, new results, and new techniques to obtain familiar results. Other papers in this volume are representative examples of a current trend in modal logic: the study of extensions or adaptations of the standard sys­ tems that have been introduced to overcome various shortcomings of the latter, especially their limited expressive power. Finally, there is another major theme that can be discerned in the vol­ ume, a theme that may be described by the slogan 'representing changing information. ' Papers falling under this heading address long-standing issues in the area, or present a systematic approach, while a critical survey and a report contributing new techniques are also included. The bulk of the papers on pure modal logic deal with theoreti­ calor even foundational aspects of modal systems.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Rijke, Maarten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Grundlagen der Mathematik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beyond Accessibility: Functional Models for Modal Logic.- Modal Logic and Attribute Value Structures.- Interpreting Modal Natural Deduction in Type Theory.- Modal Translations in K and D.- Logical Omniscience and Inconsistent Belief.- Cautious Backtracking in Truth Maintenance Systems.- How Completeness and Correspondence Theory Got Married.- Dyadic Modalities and Lambek Calculus.- A Logic with Progressive Tenses.- The Complexity of Propositional Tense Logics.- On Total Awareness Logics.- Completeness via Completeness: Since and Until.- The Feasibility of Defeat in Defeasible Reasoning.