What Is a Logical System?

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Overview

This superb collection of papers focuses on a fundamental question in logic and computation: What is a logical system? With contributions from leading researchers—including Ian Hacking, Robert Kowalski, Jim Lambek, Neil Tennent, Arnon Avron, L. Farinas del Cerro, Kosta Dosen, and Solomon Feferman—the book presents a wide range of views on how to answer such a question, reflecting current, mainstream approaches to logic and its applications. Written to appeal to a diverse audience of readers, What is a Logical System? will excite discussion among students, teachers, and researchers in mathematics, logic, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780198538592
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 10/28/1996
  • Series: Studies in Logic and Computation Series , #4
  • Pages: 464
  • Product dimensions: 6.44 (w) x 9.50 (h) x 1.17 (d)

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University of London
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Table of Contents

List of contributors
1 What is Logic? 1
2 Logic without Model Theory 35
3 Diagrams and the Concept of Logical System 73
4 General Dynamic Logic 107
5 What is a Deductive System? 141
6 The Transmission of Truth and the Transitivity of Deduction 161
7 What is a Logical System? 179
8 What is a Logical System? 217
9 Structure, Consequence Relation and Logic 239
10 Schematic Consequence 261
11 Logical Constants as Punctuation Marks 273
12 Finitary Inductively Presented Logics 297
13 A Theory and its Metatheory in FSO 329
14 General Logics and Logical Frameworks 355
15 General Algebraic Logic: A Perspective on 'What is Logic' 393
Index 444
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