The Logic of Information Structures
Author: Heinrich Wansing
Publisher:
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9783662213469
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The Logic of Information
Author: Luciano Floridi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0192570277
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuciano 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 Structure
Author: Dirk van Dalen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3662023822
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The Logic of Typed Feature Structures
Author: Bob Carpenter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-06-26
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0521419328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops the theory of typed feature structures and provides a logical foundation for logic programming and constraint-based reasoning systems.
The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure
Author: Caroline Féry
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 1133
ISBN-13: 019100541X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on focus, topic, and givenness. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including quantification, dislocation, and intonation, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including language processing and acquisition. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.
Incomplete Information: Structure, Inference, Complexity
Author: Stephane P. Demri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 366204997X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph presents a systematic, exhaustive and up-to-date overview of formal methods and theories for data analysis and inference inspired by the concept of rough set. Throughout, Demri studies structures with incomplete information from the logical, algebraic and computational perspective. The formalisms developed are non-invasive in that only the actual information that is needed in the process of analysis without external sources of information being required. The book is self-contained to a large degree, providing detailed derivations of most of the technical results, and is intended for researchers, lecturers and graduate students.
The Structure of Aristotelian Logic
Author: James Wilkinson Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-14
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1317375424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1938. This compact treatise is a complete treatment of Aristotle’s logic as containing negative terms. It begins with defining Aristotelian logic as a subject-predicate logic confining itself to the four forms of categorical proposition known as the A, E, I and O forms. It assigns conventional meanings to these categorical forms such that subalternation holds. It continues to discuss the development of the logic since the time of its founder and address traditional logic as it existed in the twentieth century. The primary consideration of the book is the inclusion of negative terms - obversion, contraposition etc. – within traditional logic by addressing three questions, of systematization, the rules, and the interpretation.
Semantics - Sentence and Information Structure
Author: Paul Portner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 3110587319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead this book to get a deeper understanding of a wide range of semantics research on complex sentences and meaning in discourse. These in-depth articles from leading names in their fields cover the core concepts of sentential semantics such as tense, modality, conditionality, propositional attitudes, scope, negation, and coordination. The highly cited material, covers questions, imperatives, copular clauses, and existential sentences. It also includes essential research on sentence types, and explains central concepts in the theory of information structure and discourse structure, such as topics, cohesion and coherence, accessibility and discourse particles.
The Expression of Information Structure
Author: Manfred Krifka
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2012-08-31
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 311026160X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformation structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional state of the addressee. This shows in categories like topic-comment structuring, focus to highlight expressions, marking of givenness and of presupposed information, and ways to indicate that the information provided is restricted. The book relates infor-mation structure to theoretical models of grammar, to computation and modelling and brings together what is known about the expression of information structure in human language with regard to its empirical investigation, its psycholinguistic aspects and the acquisition of information structure. Since the need to integrate what is said into the informational and attentional state of the addressee is central to all human communication, it is not surprising that all natural languages have developed devices to express information structural cate-gories. To illustrate this, the book also provides concrete and theory independent descriptions of the information structural encoding strategies of individual languages of different types . The book can be used as a textbook appropriate for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses; it also provides information for linguists that are not specialists in the field.
Objects and Information Structure
Author: Mary Dalrymple
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-02
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0521199859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cross-linguistic study of how objects are affected by information structure.
