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PublisherCsli Publications/Center for T.H.E. Study of Language & Information

ISBN-101881526097

ISBN-139781881526094

eBay Product ID (ePID)179622

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Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameSituation Theory and Its Applications, Volume 3

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMovements / Existentialism, General, Logic

Publication Year1993

TypeTextbook

AuthorDavid Israel

Subject AreaComputers, Philosophy

SeriesLecture Notes Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight30.3 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Series Volume Number37

Volume NumberVol. 3

Table Of ContentPreface; Part I. Situation Theory: 1. Constraints, channels, and the flow of information Jon Barwise; 2. Extended Kamp notation: a graphical notation for situation theory Jon Barwise and Robin Cooper; 3. States of affairs without parameters Mark Crimmins; Part II. Logical Applications: 4. Labelled deductive systems and situation theory D. M. Gabbay; 5. Events and processes in situation semantics Michael Georgeff, David Morley and Anand Rao; 6. Nonmonotonic projection, causation and induction Robert C. Koons; 7. Modal situation theory Stephen M. Schulz; Part III. Linguistic Applications: 8. Generalized quantifiers and resource situations Robin Cooper; 9. Situation theory and cooperative action Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg; 10. Propositional and non-propositional attitudes Jonathan Ginzburg; 11. Episodic logic: a situational logic for natural language processing Chung Hee Hwang and Lenhart K. Schubert; 12. A situation-theoric formalization of definite description interpretation in plan elaboration dialogues Massimo Poessio; 13. A situation-theoretic representation of text meaning; anaphora, quantification, and negation Dag Westerståhl, Björn Haglund and Torbjörn Lager; Name index; Subject index.

SynopsisSituation theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science and AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, it aims to provide a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all these fields. Unlike Shannon-Weaver type theories of information, which are purely quantitative theories, situation theory aims at providing tools for the analysis of the specific content of a situation (signal, message, data base, statement, or other information-carrying situation). The question addressed is not how much information is carried, but what information is carried.

LC Classification NumberBC5.S57 1993