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Logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning :proceedings of the second inte…
Papers presented during the workshop held in Lisbon in June 1993."This is the second in a series of workshops that are bringing together researchers from the theoretical end of both the logic programming and artificial intelligence communities to discuss their mutual interests. This workshop emphasizes the relationship between logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning.Luis' Moniz Pereira is…
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- 9780262291378
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- 1 online resource (vii, 494 pages) :illustrations
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The logic of political survival
The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not. The authors constru…
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- 9780262269520
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 536 pages) :illustrations
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Logic as grammar
"A Bradford book."How is the meaning of natural language interpreted? Taking as its point of departure the logical problem of natural language acquisition, this book elaborates a theory of meaning based on syntactical rather than semantical processes. Hornstein argues that the traditional neoFregean approach taken by Davidson, Barwise and Perry, and Montague, among others--an approach that make…
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- 0262081377
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- 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
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Logic and information flow
"The thirteen chapters written expressly for this book by logicians, theoretical computer scientists, philosophers, and semanticists address, from the perspective of mathematical logic, the problems of understanding and studying the flow of information through any information-processing system. The logic of information flow has applications in both computer science and natural language processi…
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- 0585358451
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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The LOCUS distributed system architecture
"Computer systems consisting of many machines will be the norm within a few years. However, making a collection of machines appear as a single, coherent system - in which the location of files, servers, programs, or users is invisible to users who do not wish to know - is a very difficult problem. LOCUS, a distributed version of the popular operating system Unix, provides an excellent solution.…
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- 0262288419
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- 1 online resource (xv, 148 pages) :illustrations.
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Living standards and the wealth of nations :successes and failures in real co…
A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence--what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries.The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries can catch up to those found in advanced economies, is critical for understanding econom…
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- 9780262267618
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- 1 online resource (vi, 434 pages) :illustrations
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The linguistic turn in hermeneutic philosophy
Annotation The linguistic turn in German philosophy was initiated in the eighteenth century in the work of Johann Georg Hamann, Johann Gottfried von Herder, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. It was further developed in this century by Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer extended its influence to contemporary philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and J?Habermas. This tradition focuses on the world-di…
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- 0585190097
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 377 pages).
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Lingua ex machina :reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the human brain
"A Bradford book.""A proper lingua ex machina would be a language machine capable of nesting phrases and clauses inside one another, complete with evolutionary pedigree. Such circuitry for structured thought might also facilitate creative shaping up of quality (figuring out what to do with the leftovers in the refrigerator), contingency planning, procedural games, logic, and even music. And enh…
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- 9780262316132
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- 1 online resource (298 pages) :illustrations
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The limits of culture :Islam and foreign policy
"The Limits of Culture explores the effect of culture on foreign policy, focusing on countries in the geopolitically important Caspian region and paying particular attention to those states that have identified themselves as Islamic republics: Iran, Taliban Afghanistan, and Pakistan."--Jacket.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262283441
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- 1 online resource (ix, 350 pages) :illustrations.
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Lifespan development of human memory
"A Bradford book."An original approach to memory development that views memory as a continuous process of growth and loss over the human lifespan rather than as a series of separate periods. Until recently, the vast majority of memory research used only university students and other young adults as subjects. Although such research successfully introduced new methodologies and theoretical concep…
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- 9780262274203
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- 1 online resource (viii, 299 pages) :illustrations
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