Formal languages in logic : a philosophical and cognitive analysis /

"Formal Languages in Logic Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects, and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Novaes, Catarina Dutilh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Formal languages.
Reasoning.
Cognition.
Langages formels.
cognition.
MATHEMATICS > Logic.
MATHEMATICS > Infinity.
Cognition
Formal languages
Reasoning
Formale Sprache
Kognition
Logik
Logica.
Formele talen.
Logik.
Språkfilosofi.
Kognition.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Two notions of formality
  • 2. On the very notion of a formal language
  • 3. The history, purposes and limitations of formal languages
  • 4. How we do reason, and the need for counterbalance in science
  • 5. Formal languages and extended cognition
  • 6. De-semantification
  • 7. The debiasing effect of formalization
  • Conclusion.

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