Logic, Language and Computation / Edition 1

by S. Akama

Overview

The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection of papers on Logic, Language and Computation. One very striking feature of the application of logic to language and to computation is that it requires the combination, the integration and the use of many diverse systems and methodologies - all in the same single application. The papers in this volume will give the reader a glimpse into the problems of this active frontier of logic. The Editors CONTENTS Preface IX 1. S. AKAMA Recent Issues in Logic, Language and Computation 1 2. M. J. CRESSWELL Restricted Quantification 27 3. B. H. SLATER The Epsilon Calculus' Problematic 39 4. K. VON HEUSINGER Definite Descriptions and Choice Functions 61 5. N. ASHER Spatio-Temporal Structure in Text 93 6. Y. NAKAYAMA DRT and Many-Valued Logics 131 7. S. AKAMA On Constructive Modality 143 8. H. W ANSING Displaying as Temporalizing: Sequent Systems for Subintuitionistic Logics 159 9. L. FARINAS DEL CERRO AND V. LUGARDON 179 Quantification and Dependence Logics 10. R. SYLVAN Relevant Conditionals, and Relevant Application Thereof 191 Index 245 Preface This is a collection of papers by distinguished researchers on Logic, Lin­ guistics, Philosophy and Computer Science. The aim of this book is to address a broad picture of the recent research on related areas. In particular, the contributions focus on natural language semantics and non-classical logics from different viewpoints.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792343769
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	01/31/1997
Series:	Applied Logic Series , #5
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	253
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Recent Issues in Logic, Language and Computation.- 2. Restricted Quantification.- 3. The Epsilon Calculus’ Problematic.- 4. Definite Descriptions and Choice Functions.- 5. Spatio-Temporal Structure in Text.- 6. DRT and Many-Valued Logics.- 7. On Constructive Modality.- 8. Displaying as Temporalizing: Sequent Systems for Subintuitistic Logics.- 9. Quantification and Dependence Logics.- 10. Relevant Conditionals, and Relevant Application Thereof.

Editorial Reviews

Ten papers address how to handle quantification in natural language and how to isolate genuine logics of information. After a survey of recent literature on the issues, they investigate natural language semantics in the tradition of standard predicate logic, using Hilbert's calculus as a promising framework for formalizing natural language discourse; discourse representation theory as one of the successful theories for discourse semantics; and several non-classical logics, including constructive, sub-intuitionistic, dependence, and relevant. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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