Formal Logic: A Modern Introduction

?Logic and Formal Ontology: Is the Final Formal Ontology Possible

Musa Akrami AbstractMany philosophers and logicians have contemplated the relationship between ontology and logic. The author of this paper, working within a Bolzanoan-Husserlian tradition of studying both ontology and logic, considers ontology as the science of the most general features of beings and the most general relations among them. He considers logic as the science concernin...

An Introduction to Practical Formal Methods Using Temporal Logic

Syntactic Theory A Formal Introduction

A. Sag and Thomas Wasow, published by CSLI Publications. ©2001 by CSLI Publications. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provided that CSLI Publications is notified and n...

Fuzzy Logic - A Modern Perspective

Traditionaly, fuzzy logic has been viewed in the AI community as an approach for managing uncertainty. In the 1990's, however, fuzzy logic has emerged as a paradigm for approximating a functional mapping. This complementary mordern view about the technology offers new insights about the foundation of fuzzy logic as well as new challenges regarding the identification of fuzzy models. In this pap...

Formal Logic

where the universal (all) has been replaced with an existential (some/exists) then the argument would not be valid. In Ancient Greece, Aristotle exhaustively considered all possible combinations of universals and existentials in syllogisms, allowing also for the possibility of negations, and collected those corresponding to valid inferences in a classification theorem. For many centuries, that ...