These notes were prepared for the UC Berkeley Group in Logic & the Methodology of Science foundations exam. Material is adapted from Chang and Keisler’s (1973) Model Theory and Wilfrid Hodges’ (1997) A Shorter Model Theory. Sections 1-2 review basic semantic/syntactic concepts; Section 3 introduces Robinson diagrams and canonical interpretations; Section 4 presents backand-forth techniques; Sec...

The Sellars and Tegart’s hyperbolic sine constitutive model is widely practiced in describing stress–strain curves of metals hot deformation processes. acceptance this phenomenological owed to its versatility (working for a wide range stress values) simplicity (being only function strain, strain rate, temperature). common practices are revisited work, with few suggestions improve results. Moreo...

(This text written by Jesper Møller, Aalborg University, is submitted for the collection ‘Stochastic Geometry: Highlights, Interactions and New Perspectives’, edited by Wilfrid S. Kendall and Ilya Molchanov, to be published by Clarendon Press, Oxford, and planned to appear as Section 4.1 with the title ‘Inference’.) This contribution concerns statistical inference for parametric models used in ...

In this essay I want to place the arguments of “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind” into a slightly less local context, by tracing further, into neighboring works, some strands of argumentation that intersect and are woven together in his critique of empiricism in its two principal then-extant forms: traditional, and 20 century logical empiricism. Sellars always accepted that observation rep...

Abstract The microstructure of Fe-15Mn-10Al-5Ni-0.8C low density duplex steel ingots was studied by laser confocal scanning calorimetry , metallographic microscopy and electron microscopy. results indicated that: the mainly composed coarse austenite dendrites δ -ferrite phase in dendrite. could be completely eliminated solution treatment. A dynamic model grain growth established. Through analys...