Meaning and Proscription in Formal Logic Variations on the Propositional Logic of William T. Parry /

• Main Author: Ferguson, Thomas Macaulay (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, 49
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Analysis (Philosophy).; Logic design.; Mathematical logic.; Computer science > Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Logic Design.; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Analytic Philosophy.

This book aids in the rehabilitation of the wrongfully deprecated work of William Parry, and is the only full-length investigation into Parry-type propositional logics. A central tenet of the monograph is that the sheer diversity of the contexts in which the mereological analogy emerges – its efferv...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Proscriptive Principle.-Nonsense and Proscription*
• Metaphysical Considerations on State Space Semantics
• A Computational Interpretation of Conceptivism*
• Faulty Belnap Computers and Subsystems of Efde*
• Cut-Down Operations on Multilattices*
• Correia Semantics Revisited*
• Concluding Remarks.