On the Logos: A Naïve View on Ordinary Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic

• Main Author: Trillas, Enric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, 354
• Subjects: Engineering.; Logic.; Artificial intelligence.; Mathematical logic.; Computational intelligence.; Cognitive psychology.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Cognitive Psychology.

This book offers an inspiring and naïve view on language and reasoning. It presents a new approach to ordinary reasoning that follows the author’s former work on fuzzy logic. Starting from a pragmatic scientific view on meaning as a quantity, and the common sense reasoning from a primitive notion of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Meaning as a Quantity
• Antonyms, Negation, and the Fuzzy Case
• ‘And’, and ‘Or’ in Language. The case with Fuzzy Sets
• A First Look at Conditional Statements
• Linguistic Qualification, and Synonymy
• Thinking, Analogy, and Reasoning
• A (Naïve) Symbolic Model of Ordinary Reasoning
• A Glance at Analogy
• A Glance at Creative Reasoning
• Formal Reasoning with Precise Words
• Formal Reasoning with Imprecise Words
• A Few Questions on the Reasoning of Quantum Physics
• Questions on Uncertain, Possible, and Probable
• Questions on Domesticating and Controlling Analogy
• Questions on the Classical Schemes of Inference
• Questions on the Fuzzy Schemes of Inference
• Questions on Monotony
• Questions on ‘Not Covered by P’
• Questions on ‘Sorites’ in Ordinary Reasoning
• A Few Questions on Naming Concepts
• Instead of a Conclusion
• To End Up. .