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The Logic of Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192570277
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, he articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Logic and Information Flow

Author : Jan Eijck
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262220477
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Logic and Information Flow written by Jan Eijck and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processing and is a growing area within mathematical and philosophical logic.

Logic and the Organization of Information

Author : Martin Frické
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461430887
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Logic and the Organization of Information written by Martin Frické and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logic and the Organization of Information closely examines the historical and contemporary methodologies used to catalogue information objects—books, ebooks, journals, articles, web pages, images, emails, podcasts and more—in the digital era. This book provides an in-depth technical background for digital librarianship, and covers a broad range of theoretical and practical topics including: classification theory, topic annotation, automatic clustering, generalized synonymy and concept indexing, distributed libraries, semantic web ontologies and Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). It also analyzes the challenges facing today’s information architects, and outlines a series of techniques for overcoming them. Logic and the Organization of Information is intended for practitioners and professionals working at a design level as a reference book for digital librarianship. Advanced-level students, researchers and academics studying information science, library science, digital libraries and computer science will also find this book invaluable.

The Logic of Information Structures

Author : Heinrich Wansing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783662213469
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Information Structures written by Heinrich Wansing and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Information Flow

Author : Jon Barwise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316582663
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Information Flow written by Jon Barwise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the 'information age', there is no consensus on what information is, what makes it possible, and what it means for one medium to carry information about another. Drawing on ideas from mathematics, computer science and philosophy, this book addresses the definition and place of information in society. The authors, observing that information flow is possible only within a connected distribution system, provide a mathematically rigorous, philosophically sound foundation for a science of information. They illustrate their theory by applying it to a wide range of phenomena, from file transfer to DNA, from quantum mechanics to speech act theory.

The Logic of Knowledge Bases

Author : Hector J. Levesque
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263498
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Knowledge Bases written by Hector J. Levesque and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-02-15 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail the relationship between symbolic representations of knowledge and abstract states of knowledge, exploring along the way the foundations of knowledge, knowledge bases, knowledge-based systems, and knowledge representation and reasoning. The idea of knowledge bases lies at the heart of symbolic, or "traditional," artificial intelligence. A knowledge-based system decides how to act by running formal reasoning procedures over a body of explicitly represented knowledge—a knowledge base. The system is not programmed for specific tasks; rather, it is told what it needs to know and expected to infer the rest. This book is about the logic of such knowledge bases. It describes in detail the relationship between symbolic representations of knowledge and abstract states of knowledge, exploring along the way the foundations of knowledge, knowledge bases, knowledge-based systems, and knowledge representation and reasoning. Assuming some familiarity with first-order predicate logic, the book offers a new mathematical model of knowledge that is general and expressive yet more workable in practice than previous models. The book presents a style of semantic argument and formal analysis that would be cumbersome or completely impractical with other approaches. It also shows how to treat a knowledge base as an abstract data type, completely specified in an abstract way by the knowledge-level operations defined over it.

The Logic of Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198833636
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge. His starting point is that reality provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. Such transformation or repurposing is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems. Thus, Luciano Floridi articulates and defends the thesis that knowledge is design and philosophy is the ultimate form of conceptual design. Although entirely independent of Floridi's previous books, The Philosophy of Information (OUP 2011) and The Ethics of Information (OUP 2013), The Logic of Information both complements the existing volumes and presents new work on the foundations of the philosophy of information.

Epistemic Logic

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822970929
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Logic written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-02-27 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epistemic logic is the branch of philosophical thought that seeks to formalize the discourse about knowledge. Its object is to articulate and clarify the general principles of reasoning about claims to and attributions of knowledge. This comprehensive survey of the topic offers the first systematic account of the subject as it has developed in the journal literature over recent decades. Rescher gives an overview of the discipline by setting out the general principles for reasoning about such matters as propositional knowledge and interrogative knowledge. Aimed at graduate students and specialists, Epistemic Logic elucidates both Rescher's pragmatic view of knowledge and the field in general.

Information: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609544
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Information: A Very Short Introduction written by Luciano Floridi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to create us; we learn through the information fed to us; we relate to each other through information transfer - gossip, lectures, reading. Information is not only a mathematically powerful concept, but its critical role in society raises wider ethical issues: who owns information? Who controls its dissemination? Who has access to information? Luciano Floridi, a philosopher of information, cuts across many subjects, from a brief look at the mathematical roots of information - its definition and measurement in 'bits'- to its role in genetics (we are information), and its social meaning and value. He ends by considering the ethics of information, including issues of ownership, privacy, and accessibility; copyright and open source. For those unfamiliar with its precise meaning and wide applicability as a philosophical concept, 'information' may seem a bland or mundane topic. Those who have studied some science or philosophy or sociology will already be aware of its centrality and richness. But for all readers, whether from the humanities or sciences, Floridi gives a fascinating and inspirational introduction to this most fundamental of ideas. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Logic for Information Technology

Author : Antony Galton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Logic for Information Technology written by Antony Galton and published by . This book was released on 1990-11-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to logic as it applies to information technology is written specifically from the point of view of computer science students. The author's approach adheres to imparting the canonical logic theories--propositional calculus and first-order predicate calculus. The text first introduces a wide range of general logic concepts that are applicable to any variety of logic, followed by detailed clear exposition of the propositional and predicate calculuses and their proof theories. Different methods of validating propositional inferences, as well as the means of determining the adequacy of such methods, are discussed. Algorithmic aspects are stressed, as is the deductive character of logic. The author takes pains throughout the text to eradicate a number of common confusions and misunderstandings, including those between the material conditional (if/then) and logical implication; between syntactical and semantical consequence relations (deducibility vs entailment); and between Use and Mention. All variables used in the predicate calculus are bound by quantifiers, thus avoiding the cumbersome use of variable assignments.

Mysticism and Logic

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and Logic written by Bertrand Russell and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Uncovering the Logic of English: A Common-Sense Solution to America's Literacy Crisis

Author : Denise Eide
Publisher : Logic of English, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1936706075
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Uncovering the Logic of English: A Common-Sense Solution to America's Literacy Crisis written by Denise Eide and published by Logic of English, Inc. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English is so illogical!" It is generally believed that English is a language of exceptions. For many, learning to spell and read is frustrating. For some, it is impossible... especially for the 29% of Americans who are functionally illiterate. But what if the problem is not the language itself, but the rules we were taught? What if we could see the complexity of English as a powerful tool rather than a hindrance? --Denise Eide Uncovering the Logic of English challenges the notion that English is illogical by systematically explaining English spelling and answering questions like "Why is there a silent final E in have, large, and house?" and "Why is discussion spelled with -sion rather than -tion?" With easy-to-read examples and anecdotes, this book describes: - the phonograms and spelling rules which explain 98% of English words - how English words are formed and how this knowledge can revolutionize vocabulary development - how understanding the reasons behind English spelling prevents students from needing to guess The author's inspiring commentary makes a compelling case that understanding the logic of English could transform literacy education and help solve America's literacy crisis. Thorough and filled with the latest linguistic and reading research, Uncovering the Logic of English demonstrates why this systematic approach should be as foundational to our education as 1+1=2.

The Situation in Logic

Author : Jon Barwise
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language (CSLI)
ISBN 13 : 9780937073322
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Situation in Logic written by Jon Barwise and published by Center for the Study of Language (CSLI). This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situation Theory and situation semantics are recent approaches to language and information, approaches first formulated by Jon Barwise and John Perry in Situations and Attitudes (1983). The present volume collects some of Barwise's papers written since then, those directly concerned with relations among logic, situation theory, and situation semantics. Several papers appear here for the first time.

Logic and Information

Author : Keith J. Devlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521499712
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Logic and Information written by Keith J. Devlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligence can be characterised both as the ability to absorb and process information and as the ability to reason. Humans and other animals have both of these abilities to a greater or lesser degree, but the search for artificial intelligence has been hampered by our inability to create a theory that covers both of these characteristics. In this provocative and ground-breaking book, Professor Keith Devlin argues that to obtain a deeper understanding of the nature of intelligence and knowledge acquisition, we must broaden our concept of logic. For these purposes, Devlin introduces the concept of the infon, a quantum of information, and merges it with situations, a mathematical construction generalising the notion of sets developed by Barwise and Perry at Stanford University in order to study the meaning of natural languages. He develops and describes the theory here in general and intuitive terms, and discusses its relevance to a variety of concerns such as artificial intelligence, cognition, natural language and communication.

The Logic of Time

Author : Johan van Benthem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401579474
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Time written by Johan van Benthem and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different dis ciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book. Many have reacted to issues raised in its philosophical discussions, while some have even solved a number of the open technical questions raised in the logical elaboration of the latter. These results will be recorded below, at a more convenient place. In the seven years after the first publication, there have been some noticeable newer developments in the logical study of Time and temporal expressions. As far as Temporal Logic proper is concerned, it seems fair to say that these amount to an increase in coverage and sophistication, rather than further break-through innovation. In fact, perhaps the most significant sources of new activity have been the applied areas of Linguistics and Computer Science (including Artificial Intelligence), where many intriguing new ideas have appeared presenting further challenges to temporal logic. Now, since this Book has a rather tight composition, it would have been difficult to interpolate this new material without endangering intelligibility.

The Philosophy of Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655643
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luciano Floridi presents a book that will set the agenda for the philosophy of information. PI is the philosophical field concerned with (1) the critical investigation of the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its dynamics, utilisation, and sciences, and (2) the elaboration and application of information-theoretic and computational methodologies to philosophical problems. This book lays down, for the first time, the conceptual foundations for this new area of research. It does so systematically, by pursuing three goals. Its metatheoretical goal is to describe what the philosophy of information is, its problems, approaches, and methods. Its introductory goal is to help the reader to gain a better grasp of the complex and multifarious nature of the various concepts and phenomena related to information. Its analytic goal is to answer several key theoretical questions of great philosophical interest, arising from the investigation of semantic information.

Algebraic Methods in Philosophical Logic

Author : J. Michael Dunn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191589225
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Methods in Philosophical Logic written by J. Michael Dunn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text demonstrates how various notions of logic can be viewed as notions of universal algebra. It is aimed primarily for logisticians in mathematics, philosophy, computer science and linguistics with an interest in algebraic logic, but is also accessible to those from a non-logistics background. It is suitable for researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates who have an introductory knowledge of algebraic logic providing more advanced concepts, as well as more theoretical aspects. The main theme is that standard algebraic results (representations) translate into standard logical results (completeness). Other themes involve identification of a class of algebras appropriate for classical and non-classical logic studies, including: gaggles, distributoids, partial- gaggles, and tonoids. An imporatant sub title is that logic is fundamentally information based, with its main elements being propositions, that can be understood as sets of information states. Logics are considered in various senses e.g. systems of theorems, consequence relations and, symmetric consequence relations.