A. Tarski [22] proposed the study of infinitary consequence operations as the central topic of mathematical logic. He considered monotonicity to be a property of all such operations. In this paper, we ...

EIGHTY years ago, Jevons, then professor of logic at Owens College (now the University of Manchester), built a machine which could perform logical inference by mechanical means 1. Other similar ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We motivate and introduce a new method of abduction, Matrix Abduction, and apply it to modelling the use of non-deductive inferences in the ...