Pure inductive logic / Jeffrey Paris, University of Manchester, Alena Vencovská, University of Manchester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paris, J. B. (Jeff B.), author.

Vencovská, Alena, author.

Series:

Perspectives in logic.

Perspectives in logic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Induction (Logic).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pure inductive logic is the study of rational probability treated as a branch of mathematical logic. This monograph, the first devoted to this approach, brings together the key results from the past seventy years plus the main contributions of the authors and their collaborators over the last decade to present a comprehensive account of the discipline within a single unified context. The exposition is structured around the traditional bases of rationality, such as avoiding Dutch Books, respecting symmetry and ignoring irrelevant information. The authors uncover further rationality concepts, both in the unary and in the newly emerging polyadic languages, such as conformity, spectrum exchangeability, similarity and language invariance. For logicians with a mathematical grounding, this book provides a complete self-contained course on the subject, taking the reader from the basics up to the most recent developments. It is also a useful reference for a wider audience from philosophy and computer science.

Contents:

Part I. The Basics : 1. Introduction to pure inductive logic ; 2. Context ; 3. Probability functions ; 4. Conditional probability ; 5. The Dutch book argument ; 6. Some basic principles ; 7. Specifying probability functions

Part II. Unary Inductive Logic : 8. Introduction to unary pure inductive logic ; 9. de Finetti's representation theorem ; 10. Regularity and universal certainty ; 11. Relevance ; 12. Asymptotic conditional probabilities ; 13. The conditionalization theorem ; 14. Atom exchangeability ; 15. Reichenbach's axiom ; 16. Carnap's continnuum of inductive methods ; 17. Irrelevance ; 18. Another continuum of inductive methods ; 19. The NP-continuum ; 20. The weak irrelevance principle ; 21. Equalities and inequalities ; 22. Principles of analogy ; 23. Unary symmetry

Part III. Polyadic Inductive Logic : 24. Introduction to polyadic pure inductive logic ; 25. Polyadic constant exchangeability ; 26. Polyadic regularity ; 27. Spectrum exchangeability ; 28. Conformity ; 29. The probability functions u {\overline{p}, L} ; 30. The homogeneous/heterogeneous divide ; 31. Representation theorems for Sx ; 32. Language invariance with Sx ; 33. Sx without language invariance ; 34. A general representation theorem for Sx ; 35. The Carnap-Stegmüller principle ; 36. Instantial relevance and Sx ; 37. Equality ; 38. The polyadic Johnson's sufficientness postulate ; 39. Polyadic symmetry ; 40. Similarity ; 41. PIP and atom exchangeability ; 42. The functions u_{\overline{E}} {\overline{p}, L} ; 43. Less well travelled roads ; Bibliography ; Index ; Symbols and abbreviations.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-316-39280-5

1-316-39319-4

1-316-39335-6

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1-316-39343-7

1-316-39347-X

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