Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

We attempt to define the classical propositional logic by use of appropriate derivability conditions called Cn-definitions. The conditions characterize basic properties of propositional connectives.

when thinking about logical agents, we imagine that the agent has a knowledge base (KB for short) that contains logical sentences that describe the state of the world you could think of a KB as a ...

Epistemic logic constitutes a rigorous framework for representing and reasoning about knowledge and belief. Central to this discipline is the formalisation of how agents acquire, retain and attribute ...

I consider the idea of a propositional logic of location based on the following semantic framework, derived from ideas of Prior. We have a collection L of the locations and a collection S of ...

Schools and colleges no longer teach formal logic, as evidenced by the huge number of people who espouse conspiracy theories (all of which fall apart when subjected to formal logic). So, unless you ...

In honor of Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), an acting genius and a paragon of a man, I chart a method for logically deducing the pattern of inheritance of parental values using Nimoy’s quintessial ...