Raymond Smullyan On Self Reference
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Raymond Smullyan On Self Reference
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Author : Melvin Fitting
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-11
Raymond Smullyan On Self Reference written by Melvin Fitting and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with Philosophy categories.
This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan’s work on self-reference. It serves not only as a tribute to one of the great thinkers in logic, but also as a celebration of self-reference in general, to be enjoyed by all lovers of this field. Raymond Smullyan, mathematician, philosopher, musician and inventor of logic puzzles, made a lasting impact on the study of mathematical logic; accordingly, this book spans the many personalities through which Professor Smullyan operated, offering extensions and re-evaluations of his academic work on self-reference, applying self-referential logic to art and nature, and lastly, offering new puzzles designed to communicate otherwise esoteric concepts in mathematical logic, in the manner for which Professor Smullyan was so well known. This book is suitable for students, scholars and logicians who are interested in learning more about Raymond Smullyan's work and life.
Diagonalization And Self Reference
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Logic Guides
Release Date : 1994
Diagonalization And Self Reference written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Oxford Logic Guides this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The main purpose of this book is to present a unified treatment of fixed points as they occur in Godel's incompleteness proofs, recursion theory, combinatory logic, semantics, and metamathematics. The book provides a survey of introductory material and a summary of recent research. The firstchapters are of an introductory nature and consist mainly of exercises with solutions given to most of them.
Self Reference
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Author : S.J. Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Self Reference written by S.J. Bartlett and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
Self-reference, although a topic studied by some philosophers and known to a number of other disciplines, has received comparatively little explicit attention. For the most part the focus of studies of self-reference has been on its logical and linguistic aspects, with perhaps disproportionate emphasis placed on the reflexive paradoxes. The eight-volume Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for example, does not contain a single entry in its index under "self-reference", and in connection with "reflexivity" mentions only "relations", "classes", and "sets". Yet, in this volume, the introductory essay identifies some 75 varieties and occurrences of self-reference in a wide range of disciplines, and the bibliography contains more than 1,200 citations to English language works about reflexivity. The contributed papers investigate a number of forms and applications of self-reference, and examine some of the challenges posed by its difficult temperament. The editors hope that readers of this volume will gain a richer sense of the sti11largely unexplored frontiers of reflexivity, and of the indispensability of reflexive concepts and methods to foundational inquiries in philosophy, logic, language, and into the freedom, personality and intelligence of persons.
The G Delian Puzzle Book
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-08-21
The G Delian Puzzle Book written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-21 with Mathematics categories.
These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
Satan Cantor And Infinity And Other Mind Bogglin
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-05-30
Satan Cantor And Infinity And Other Mind Bogglin written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-30 with Games & Activities categories.
More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.
Facts Conjectures And Improvements For Simulated Annealing
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Author : Peter Salamon
language : en
Publisher: SIAM
Release Date : 2002-01-01
Facts Conjectures And Improvements For Simulated Annealing written by Peter Salamon and has been published by SIAM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-01 with Simulated annealing (Mathematics) categories.
An introduction to simulated annealing. This book brings together for the first time many of the theoretical foundations for improvements to algorithms for global optimization that until now existed only in scattered research articles.
Social Order And The Fear Of Crime In Contemporary Times
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Author : Stephen D. Farrall
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-10
Social Order And The Fear Of Crime In Contemporary Times written by Stephen D. Farrall and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The fear of crime has been recognized as an important social problem, affecting a significant number of people. In this book, the authors review the findings from over 35 years of research into attitudes to crime and propose a new model, separating those who only 'expressively' fear crime from those who have actual experience of worrying about it.
Forever Undecided
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-07-04
Forever Undecided written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-04 with Mathematics categories.
Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems. With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports us once again to that magical island where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Here we meet a new and amazing array of characters, visitors to the island, seeking to determine the natives’ identities. Among them: the census-taker McGregor; a philosophical-logician in search of his flighty bird-wife, Oona; and a regiment of Reasoners (timid ones, normal ones, conceited, modest, and peculiar ones) armed with the rules of propositional logic (if X is true, then so is Y). By following the Reasoners through brain-tingling exercises and adventures—including journeys into the “other possible worlds” of Kripke semantics—even the most illogical of us come to understand Gödel’s two great theorems on incompleteness and undecidability, some of their philosophical and mathematical implications, and why we, like Gödel himself, must remain Forever Undecided!
The Tao Is Silent
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-03-05
The Tao Is Silent written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Religion categories.
The Tao Is Silent Is Raymond Smullyan's beguiling and whimsical guide to the meaning and value of eastern philosophy to westerners. "To me," Writes Smullyan, "Taoism means a state of inner serenity combined with an intense aesthetic awareness. Neither alone is adequate; a purely passive serenity is kind of dull, and an anxiety-ridden awareness is not very appealing." This is more than a book on Chinese philosophy. It is a series of ideas inspired by Taoism that treats a wide variety of subjects about life in general. Smullyan sees the Taoist as "one who is not so much in search of something he hasn't, but who is enjoying what he has." Readers will be charmed and inspired by this witty, sophisticated, yet deeply religious author, whether he is discussing gardening, dogs, the art of napping, or computers who dream that they're human.
Basic Belief And Basic Knowledge
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Author : René Woudenberg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-02
Basic Belief And Basic Knowledge written by René Woudenberg and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Philosophy categories.
Over the last two decades foundationalism has been severely criticized. In response to this various alternatives to it have been advanced, notably coherentism. At the same time new versions of foundationalism were crafted, that were claimed to be immune to the earlier criticisms. This volume contains 12 papers in which various aspects of this dialectic are covered. A number of papers continue the trend to defend foundationalism, and foundationalism's commitment to basic beliefs and basic knowledge, against various attacks. Others aim to show that one important objection against coherentism, viz. that the notion of 'coherence' is too vague to be useful, can be countered.