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Informal Models, Informal Logic

2023
Abstract This chapter introduces and motivates the idea of informal counterparts to the formal barriers to entailment established in the earlier part of the book: barrier theses, as opposed to barrier theorems. It develops the idea of an informal logical model and uses this to define informal logical properties directly onto natural ...
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Life, logic and information

Nature, 2008
Focusing on information flow will help us to understand better how cells and organisms work.
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Informal Logic and Logic

2011
This chapter examines some of the features of the relation between informal logic and logic. Informal logic originated with the rejection of the use of formal logic for the purpose of the analysis and the evaluation of natural language discursive arguments.
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LOGICAL PLURALISM AND SEMANTIC INFORMATION

Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2007
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Information Logics Versus Standard Modal Logics

2002
In this chapter we investigate relationships between the Rare-logics introduced in Sect. 5.4 and standard modal logics defined in Sect. 5.3.3. For the sake of simplicity, we confine ourselves to Rare-logics with a unique relation type, that is, the models of the logics contain a single family of relative rela tions.
Stéphane P. Demri, Ewa S. Orłowska
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Towards Information Logics

2002
The information operators presented in Chap. 4 are intensional operators in that the result of applying an operator to a compound set of objects depends not only on the component sets but also on an information relation. From a logical perspective, it follows that information operators have the status of modal connectives.
Stéphane P. Demri, Ewa S. Orłowska
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Formal Logic and Informal Logic

1989
While the concept of formal logic has been known since the time of Aristotle, the idea that logic and formal logic are synonymous by virtue of an elimination of any conception of informal logic becomes generalized in the midnineteenth century under the influence of mathematician-logicians.
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The “Logic” of Informal Logic

2011
The purpose of the chapter is to explore some historically-offered possible answers to the question of what alternatives there might be to deduction and induction. I briefly describe and characterize six accounts that seem on the face of it to portray some third type of assessment of an illative move, independent of deductive validity and of inductive ...
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Informal Reasoning and Informal Logic

2012
Reasoning consists of many different skills: the abilities to think coherently, to comprehend instructions and advice, to understand the difference between unsupported claims and arguments, to recognize when unsupported claims need support, and to marshall support from general background knowledge or from new investigations.
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Logic and Information

European Journal of Information Systems, 1994
(1994). Logic and Information. European Journal of Information Systems: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 242-243.
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