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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Logics for empirical science.
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:45:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.142217.14509@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug31.142217.14509@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, gemenis@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Theodor Gemenis) writes:
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- |> I am interested in logics appropriate for empirical science
- |> (or logics for knowledge), that is logics for axiomatize theories
- |> such as newtonian mechanics, electrodynamics, etc. theories also
- |> beyond mathematics.
- |> I know the work of R. Carnap, P. Suppes, J. Sneed on this field
- |> and the work of N. Nilsson in AI (logic for knowledge representation).
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- |> I would be thankful for any indication concerning recent work
- |> in this domain. Information on implemented systems for such logics
- |> is also from interest to me.
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- Your phrases "logics appropriate for empirical science", "logics
- for knowledge", and "logics [to] axiomatize theories ..." would
- seem to cover pretty diverse ground and do not, to my mind,
- necessarily share a meaning.
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- I haven't played with this stuff for a long time. In addition to
- the names you mention, the other one that comes to mind is Richard
- Montague. See, for example, "Deterministic Theories" in _Formal_
- Philosophy_ (Yale University Press, 1974). (His stuff may be dealt
- with by Sneed, but memory fails me.) I believe that Clark Glymour
- (still at Pitt?) was drifting in this area (perhaps in conjunction
- with the Pitt CS or AI departments). You might contact Henry
- Kyburg (kyburg@cs.rochester.edu) who is spending virtually all of
- his time in the Cog. Sci. program there now instead of in philosophy.
- He has been doing a lot of stuff in the area of non-deductive methods
- in AI.
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