Author : Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642190685
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)
Book Synopsis Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics by : Dov M. Gabbay
Download or read book Conditionals and Modularity in General Logics written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text centers around three main subjects. The first is the concept of modularity and independence in classical logic and nonmonotonic and other nonclassical logic, and the consequences on syntactic and semantical interpolation and language change. In particular, we will show the connection between interpolation for nonmonotonic logic and manipulation of an abstract notion of size. Modularity is essentially the ability to put partial results achieved independently together for a global result. The second aspect of the book is the authors' uniform picture of conditionals, including many-valued logics and structures on the language elements themselves and on the truth value set. The third topic explained by the authors is neighbourhood semantics, their connection to independence, and their common points and differences for various logics, e.g., for defaults and deontic logic, for the limit version of preferential logics, and for general approximation. The book will be of value to researchers and graduate students in logic and theoretical computer science.