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Title Probability Theory and Probability Semantics
Published University of Toronto Press 1999

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Contents Pt. I. Probability theory -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Probability functions for propositional logic -- ch. 2. The probabilities of infinitary statements and of quantifications -- ch. 3. Relative probability functions and their t-restrictions -- ch. 4. Representing relative probability functions by means of classes of measure functions -- ch. 5. The recursive definability of probability functions -- ch. 6. Families of probability functions characterised by equivalence relations -- pt. II. Probability logic
Ch. 7. Absolute probability functions construed as representing degrees of logical truth -- ch. 8. Relative probability functions construed as representing degrees of logical consequence -- ch. 9. Absolute probability functions for intuitionistic logic -- ch. 10. Relative probability functions for intuitionistic logic
Summary As a survey of many technical results in probability theory and probability logic, this monograph by two widely respected scholars offers a valuable compendium of the principal aspects of the formal study of probability. Hugues Leblanc and Peter Roeper explore probability functions appropriate for propositional, quantificational, intuitionistic, and infinitary logic and investigate the connections among probability functions, semantics, and logical consequence. They offer a systematic justification of constraints for various types of probability functions, in particular, an exhaustive account of probability functions adequate for first-order quantificational logic. The relationship between absolute and relative probability functions is fully explored and the book offers a complete account of the representation of relative functions by absolute ones. The volume is designed to review familiar results, to place these results within a broad context, and to extend the discussions in new and interesting ways. Authoritative, articulate, and accessible, it will interest mathematicians and philosophers at both professional and post-graduate levels
Subject Probabilities.
Logic.
Probability
probability.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Logic.
Probabilities.
Wahrscheinlichkeitslogik.
Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie.
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numeriques.
Form Electronic book
Author Leblanc, Hugues.
ISBN 1282008250
9781282008250