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Ambiguity and Logic

Author : Frederic Schick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521824583
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Logic written by Frederic Schick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Frederic Schick extends and applies the decision theory he proposed in two previous Cambridge books: Understanding Action (1991) and Making Choices (1997). He shows how the way we see situations affects the choices we make, and he develops a logic of thought responsive to how things are seen. The book considers many questions of choosing and some familiar human predicaments. Why do people in choice experiments act so often against expectations? How might they and the experimenters be looking at different problems in them? Why do people cooperate so often where the textbook logic excludes that? How can there be weakness of will - and must it always be faulted? Does how we see things affect what they mean, and what are people reporting who say that their lives have no meaning for them? These very different questions turn out to have some closely related answers. There are vivid discussions here of cases drawn from many sources. The book will interest all who study how we choose and act, whether they are philosophers, psychologists, or economists - or any combination. Frederic Schick is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity

Author : Douglas Walton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401586322
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity written by Douglas Walton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are happy to present to the reader the first book of our Applied Logic Series. Walton's book on the fallacies of ambiguity is firmly at the heart of practical reasoning, an important part of applied logic. There is an increasing interest in artifIcial intelligence, philosophy, psychol ogy, software engineering and linguistics, in the analysis and possible mechanisation of human practical reasoning. Continuing the ancient quest that began with Aristotle, computer scientists, logicians, philosophers and linguists are vigorously seeking to deepen our understanding of human reasoning and argumentation. Significant communities of researchers are actively engaged in developing new approaches to logic and argumentation, which are better suited to the urgent needs of today's applications. The author of this book has, over many years, made significant contributions to the detailed analysis of practical reasoning case studies, thus providing solid foundations for new and more applicable formal logical systems. We welcome Doug Walton's new book to our series.

Logically Fallacious

Author : Bo Bennett
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456607375
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Logically Fallacious written by Bo Bennett and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-02-19 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logical fallacies, which loosely defined, are simply errors in reasoning. With the reading of each page, you can make significant improvements in the way you reason and make decisions. Logically Fallacious is one of the most comprehensive collections of logical fallacies with all original examples and easy to understand descriptions, perfect for educators, debaters, or anyone who wants to improve his or her reasoning skills. "Expose an irrational belief, keep a person rational for a day. Expose irrational thinking, keep a person rational for a lifetime." - Bo Bennett This 2021 Edition includes dozens of more logical fallacies with many updated examples.

Philosophy Without Ambiguity

Author : Jay David Atlas
Publisher : Clarendon Library of Logic and
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy Without Ambiguity written by Jay David Atlas and published by Clarendon Library of Logic and. This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a set of problems which overlap philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence are examined from the point of view of Chomsky's linguistics. The author uses linguistic analysis to shed new light on the philosophical and logical problems of meaning,ambiguity, truth, falsity, negation and existence. He shows that visual and verbal symbols have ways of meaning in common.

Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives

Author : Claudia Maienborn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311062639X
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Semantics - Lexical Structures and Adjectives written by Claudia Maienborn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and conceptual structure of words and their meaning extensions such as coercion, metaphors and metonymies. The book features highly cited material – available in paperback for the first time since its publication – and is an essential starting point for anyone interested in lexical semantics, especially where it meets other cognitive and conceptual research.

Risk, Ambiguity, and Decision

Author : Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815340225
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Risk, Ambiguity, and Decision written by Daniel Ellsberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

How Mathematicians Think

Author : William Byers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691145997
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book How Mathematicians Think written by William Byers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-02 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. Nonlogical qualities, William Byers shows, play an essential role in mathematics. Ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes can arise when ideas developed in different contexts come into contact. Uncertainties and conflicts do not impede but rather spur the development of mathematics. Creativity often means bringing apparently incompatible perspectives together as complementary aspects of a new, more subtle theory. The secret of mathematics is not to be found only in its logical structure. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. Is mathematics objectively true? Is it discovered or invented? And is there such a thing as a "final" scientific theory? Ultimately, How Mathematicians Think shows that the nature of mathematical thinking can teach us a great deal about the human condition itself.

The Stoics on Ambiguity

Author : Catherine Atherton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521441391
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Stoics on Ambiguity written by Catherine Atherton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-21 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Stoic work on ambiguity.

Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Israel Scheffler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136961631
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Letter (Routledge Revivals) written by Israel Scheffler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambiguity, vagueness and metaphor are pervasive features of language, deserving of systematic study in their own right. Yet they have frequently been considered mere deviations from ideal language or obstacles to be avoided in the construction of scientific systems. First published in 1979, Beyond the Letter offers a consecutive study of these features from a philosphical point of view, providing analyses of each and treating their relations to one another. Addressed to the fundamental task of logical and semantic explanation, the book employs an inscriptional methodology in the attempt to avoid prevalent forms of question-begging, and, further, in the conviction that sparseness of assumption often reveals points of theoretical interest irrespective of methodolgical preference. The author distinguishes and analyses several varieties of ambiguity, developing new semantic notions in the process; recasts the philosophical treatment of vagueness in the light of recent criticisms of analyticity; discusses the bearing of vagueness on logic; and provides a systematic critique of major recent interpretations of metaphor, developing a revised version of contextualism.

Philosophy Without Ambiguity

Author : Jay David Atlas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (141 download)

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Ambiguity and Reasoning

Author : Dingeman Johannes Norbertus Eijck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguity and Reasoning written by Dingeman Johannes Norbertus Eijck and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eve Out of Her Ruins

Author : Ananda Devi
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920411
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Eve Out of Her Ruins written by Ananda Devi and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence. Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the Mauritius tourists don't see, and an exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society.

Ambiguities in Intensional Contexts

Author : F. Heny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400983778
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ambiguities in Intensional Contexts written by F. Heny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book deal with a number of problems in the analysis of intensional language - more especially with the analysis of the personal modalities in natural language. Together they cover a representative spectrum of the problems of contemporary ,interest in this area, in a way that should make them of interest to linguists, logicians and philosophers concerned with natural language. The contributors are mostly more linguists than logicians or philosophers but some are more logicians or philosophers than linguists. As far as possible, we have tried to conduct the discussion in terms that will enable students from any of these fields to come to grips with the central issues. This volume will provide, I think, material for a very stimulating course. I have used it as the basis for a course at the introductory level in the philosophy of language. The essays in the book led us back to look at the classic texts and a good deal of the intervening literature crept in of its own accord. Out of that experience grew the introduction that follows. In contrast with the rest of the book, the introduction is frankly pedagogical. I hope and believe that many who would otherwise find the papers themselves hard to digest will ~e helped on their way by that summary.

Understanding Action

Author : Frederic Schick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521408868
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Action written by Frederic Schick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-07-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By taking account of people's understanding (along with their beliefs and desires) of their situations, options and prospects, this text is able to expand the current theory of decision and action.

Why Ambiguous Guidelines?

Author : Jieun Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Why Ambiguous Guidelines? written by Jieun Kim and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Logic and Lexicon

Author : Manfred Pinkal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401584451
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Logic and Lexicon written by Manfred Pinkal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the major theories of semantic indefiniteness, which have been proposed in linguistics, philosophy and computer science. It argues for a view of indefiniteness as the potential for further contextual specification, and proposes a unified logical treatment of indefiniteness on this basis. The inherent inconsistency of natural language induced by irreducible imprecision is investigated, and treated in terms of a dynamic extension of the proposed logic. The book is an extended edition of a German monograph and is addressed to advanced students and researchers in theoretical and computational linguistics, logic, philosophy of language, and NL- oriented AI. Although it makes extensive use of logical formalisms, it requires only some basic familiarity with standard predicate logic concepts since all technical terms are carefully explained.

A History of Ambiguity

Author : Anthony Ossa-Richardson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228442
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ambiguity written by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. A History of Ambiguity remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German philosophy, and literary criticism, Anthony Ossa-Richardson explores the many ways in which readers and theorists posited, denied, conceptualised, and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts between antiquity and the twentieth century. This process took on a variety of interconnected forms, from the Renaissance delight in the ‘elegance’ of ambiguities in Horace, through the extraordinary Catholic claim that Scripture could contain multiple literal—and not just allegorical—senses, to the theory of dramatic irony developed in the nineteenth century, a theory intertwined with discoveries of the double meanings in Greek tragedy. Such narratives are not merely of antiquarian interest: rather, they provide an insight into the foundations of modern criticism, revealing deep resonances between acts of interpretation in disparate eras and contexts. A History of Ambiguity lays bare the long tradition of efforts to liberate language, and even a poet’s intention, from the strictures of a single meaning.