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Database Systems. By conceptualizing database tables as sets of simple sentences, it is possible to use Logic in support of database systems. For example, the language of Logic can be used to define virtual views of data in terms of explicitly stored tables, and it can be used to encode constraints on databases.
Logic may seem like a stuffy, abstract discipline used only by philosophers and lawyers, but it has had a profound influence on the history of science and technology as well. Alan Turing, the inventor of the modern computer, was a logician rather than a tinkerer or engineer, and his famous “Turing Machine” was a product of his rigorous ...
Mar 8, 2021 · According to Ole Hjortland, Timothy Williamson, Graham Priest, and others, anti-exceptionalism about logic is the view that logic “isn’t special”, but is continuous with the sciences. Logic is revisable, and its truths are neither analytic nor a priori. And logical theories are revised on the same grounds as scientific theories are. What isn’t special, we argue, is anti-exceptionalism ...
- Marcus Rossberg, Stewart Shapiro, Stewart Shapiro
- 2021
Definition. Logical reasoning is a form of thinking in which premises and relations between premises are used in a rigorous manner to infer conclusions that are entailed (or implied) by the premises and the relations. Different forms of logical reasoning are recognized in philosophy of science and artificial intelligence.
- Terezinha Nunes
- terezinha.nunes@education.ox.ac.uk
What is logic? Logic is the Science of Reasoning Etymology: Logykos (Greek) - pertaining to reasoning Dictionary definitions: Logic = The science of reasoning, proof, thinking, or inference Logic = The fundamental science of thoughts and its categories Logic = The science or art of reasoning as applied to a department of knowledge
Logic in computer science covers the overlap between the field of logic and that of computer science. The topic can essentially be divided into three main areas: Theoretical foundations and analysis. Use of computer technology to aid logicians. Use of concepts from logic for computer applications.
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Abstract. Scientific thinking refers to both thinking about the content of science and the set of reasoning processes that permeate the field of science: induction, deduction, experimental design, causal reasoning, concept formation, hypothesis testing, and so on. Here we cover both the history of research on scientific thinking and the ...
