Language, Form, and Logic: In Pursuit of Natural Logic's Holy Grail

by Ludlow and Peter Ludlow

This book takes an idea first explored by medieval logicians 800 years ago and revisits it armed with the tools of contemporary linguistics, logic, and computer science. The idea - the Holy Grail of the medieval logicians - was the thought that all of logic could be reduced to two very simple rules that are sensitive to logical polarity (for example, the presence and absence of negations).

Ludlow and %Zivanovic pursue this idea and show how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591539
• ISBN13: 9780199591534
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"