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The Logic of Time: A Model-Theoretic Investigation into the Varieties of Temporal Ontology and Temporal Discourse

By Johan Van Benthem

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1991
ISBN
9789048140824
DOI
10.1007/978-94-015-7947-6
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2359910 bytes)
Series
Synthese Library 156
Edition
2nd
Pages
312\312
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-12-29 19:00:00
Logic; Computational Linguistics; Mathematical Log

Description

The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different dis­ ciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book. Many have reacted to issues raised in its philosophical discussions, while some have even solved a number of the open technical questions raised in the logical elaboration of the latter. These results will be recorded below, at a more convenient place. In the seven years after the first publication, there have been some noticeable newer developments in the logical study of Time and temporal expressions. As far as Temporal Logic proper is concerned, it seems fair to say that these amount to an increase in coverage and sophistication, rather than further break-through innovation. In fact, perhaps the most significant sources of new activity have been the applied areas of Linguistics and Computer Science (including Artificial Intelligence), where many intriguing new ideas have appeared presenting further challenges to temporal logic. Now, since this Book has a rather tight composition, it would have been difficult to interpolate this new material without endangering intelligibility.

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