• Language, Proof and Logic is an educational software package, devised and written by Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, geared to teaching formal logic...
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  • logic and mathematics, a formal proof or derivation is a finite sequence of sentences (known as well-formed formulas when relating to formal language)...
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    mathematical literature, proofs are written in terms of rigorous informal logic. Purely formal proofs, written fully in symbolic language without the involvement...
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  • Proof theory is a major branch of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science within which proofs are treated as formal mathematical objects,...
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  • proving in first-order logic. First-order logic also satisfies several metalogical theorems that make it amenable to analysis in proof theory, such as the...
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  • Language, Truth and Logic is a 1936 book about meaning by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer, in which the author defines, explains, and argues for the...
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  • Propositional logic is a branch of logic. It is also called statement logic, sentential calculus, propositional calculus, sentential logic, or sometimes...
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    the steps in the proof and all the important ideas faithfully, while restating the proof in the modern language of mathematical logic. This outline should...
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    science and mathematical logic, a proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human–machine...
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  • Press of America, 1998, p. 48. Barwise, Jon; Etchemendy, John. Language, Proof and Logic (1999): 42. Beer, Francis A. "Validities: A Political Science...
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  • Constructive logic is a family of logics where proofs must be constructive (i.e., proving something means one must build or exhibit it, not just argue...
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    Gödel's completeness theorem (category Proof theory)
    is such a theory, and φ is a sentence (in the same language) and every model of T is a model of φ, then there is a (first-order) proof of φ using the statements...
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  • resource-boundedness, duality, and interaction. Linear logic lends itself to many different presentations, explanations, and intuitions. Proof-theoretically, it derives...
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  • logic is a branch of metamathematics that studies formal logic within mathematics. Major subareas include model theory, proof theory, set theory, and...
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  • mathematical logic, a proof calculus or a proof system is built to prove statements. A proof system includes the components: Formal language: The set L...
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  • In logic and proof theory, natural deduction is a kind of proof calculus in which logical reasoning is expressed by inference rules closely related to...
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  • Quantifiers in Language and Logic. Clarendon Press. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-19-929125-0. Barwise, Jon; and Etchemendy, John, 2000. Language Proof and Logic. CSLI (University...
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  • Classical logic Computability logic Deontic logic Dependence logic Description logic Deviant logic Doxastic logic Epistemic logic First-order logic Formal...
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  • An infinitary logic is a logic that allows infinitely long statements and/or infinitely long proofs. The concept was introduced by Zermelo in the 1930s...
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  • Metalogic (redirect from Meta-logic)
    between logic and metalogic. While logic deals with proofs in a formal system, expressed in some formal language, metalogic deals with proofs about a...
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  • In logic, the semantics of logic or formal semantics is the study of the meaning and interpretation of formal languages, formal systems, and (idealizations...
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    widely used object logic is Isabelle/HOL, although significant set theory developments were completed in Isabelle/ZF. Isabelle's main proof method is a higher-order...
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  • Neumann (1927) and Herbrand (1931). Stronger logics, such as second-order logic, are not complete. A consistency proof is a mathematical proof that a particular...
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    Theorem (redirect from Theorem (logic))
    In mathematics and formal logic, a theorem is a statement that has been proven, or can be proven. The proof of a theorem is a logical argument that uses...
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  • have been instantiated. In formal logic, proofs can be represented by sequences of formulas with certain properties, and the final formula in the sequence...
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  • foundation of logic of computable functions previously proposed by Dana Scott. Work on the LCF system introduced the general-purpose programming language ML to...
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    articulates a proof system. Logic plays a central role in many fields, such as philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Logic studies arguments...
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  • mathematical logic and in the philosophy of mathematics. The theorems are interpreted as showing that Hilbert's program to find a complete and consistent...
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  • Minsky and Seymour Papert. Although it was based on the proof methods of logic, Planner, developed by Carl Hewitt at MIT, was the first language to emerge...
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  • the notion of constructive proof. In particular, systems of intuitionistic logic do not assume the law of excluded middle and double negation elimination...
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