The book explores how build a mechanical inferences by making use of arithmetic operations on a string of numbers representing statements. In this way logic is reduced to a branch of the combinatory calculus. It covers the field of traditional logic by showing that any kind of inference can be mechanically reduced to three-variables and two-premise inferences. Meriological inferences can also be easily treated in this way. The book covers the following subjects: structural description of space; three-variable inferences through products, sums, subtractions, and divisions; generalization to n variables; relations; and applications.
ISBN: | 9789814411509 |
Publication date: | 23rd October 2013 |
Author: | Gennaro Auletta |
Publisher: | Jenny Stanford Publishing |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 450 pages |
Genres: |
Artificial intelligence Robotics Set theory Discrete mathematics Information technology: general topics |