This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present in this paper an axiomatization of Belnap and Perloff's stit theory (a logic of "seeing to it that") with a single agent. The idea ...

Logic is among the oldest and most foundational of the university disciplines. The goal is to equip students with most general possible framework for sound and rigorous reasoning — one that works ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Frege explained the notion of generality by stating that each its instance is a fact, and added only later the crucial observation that a ...

In World War II’s most desperate months, the mathematician Alan Turing assembled a team of codebreakers to decrypt intercepted Nazi messages. He tested applicants with chess puzzles, hired a ...

SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...