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Exploring the complexities of truth and knowledge, this book examines how insufficient or contradictory information affects reasoning, particularly in legal contexts. It discusses the challenges of using probability when faced with unreliable sources and emphasizes the importance of adjusting evaluations based on past reliability. The text also delves into conjectures regarding the homogeneity of information domains, providing a multifaceted approach to understanding how we navigate uncertainties in knowledge acquisition.

Focusing on advanced logic, this textbook's second volume delves into various complex topics, including theory revision, defeasible inheritance theory, and interpolation. It also explores neighbourhood semantics, deontic logic, and abstract independence, providing a comprehensive look at nonmonotonic logics. The author connects philosophical considerations to formal constructions, making it a valuable resource for those seeking in-depth knowledge in these areas.

The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to formal constructions. In this Vol. I the author explains preferential structures and abstract size. In the associated Vol. II he presents chapters on theory revision and sums, defeasible inheritance theory, interpolation, neighbourhood semantics and deontic logic, abstract independence, and various aspects of nonmonotonic and other logics. In both volumes the text contains many exercises and some solutions, and the author limits the discussion of motivation and general context throughout, offering this only when it aids understanding of the formal material, in particular to illustrate the path from intuition to formalisation. Together these books are a suitable compendium for graduate students and researchers in the area of computer science and mathematical logic.

The two volumes in this advanced textbook present results, proof methods, and translations of motivational and philosophical considerations to formal constructions. In this Vol. I the author explains preferential structures and abstract size. In the associated Vol. II he presents chapters on theory revision and sums, defeasible inheritance theory, interpolation, neighbourhood semantics and deontic logic, abstract independence, and various aspects of nonmonotonic and other logics. In both volumes the text contains many exercises and some solutions, and the author limits the discussion of motivation and general context throughout, offering this only when it aids understanding of the formal material, in particular to illustrate the path from intuition to formalisation. Together these books are a suitable compendium for graduate students and researchers in the area of computer science and mathematical logic.

In this book the authors present new results on interpolation for nonmonotonic logics, abstract (function) independence, the Talmudic Kal Vachomer rule, and an equational solution of contrary-to-duty obligations. The chapter on formal construction is the conceptual core of the book, where the authors combine the ideas of several types of nonmonotonic logics and their analysis of 'natural' concepts into a formal logic, a special preferential construction that combines formal clarity with the intuitive advantages of Reiter defaults, defeasible inheritance, theory revision, and epistemic considerations. It is suitable for researchers in the area of computer science and mathematical logic.

Exploring the concepts of modularity and independence, this book delves into both classical and nonclassical logics, emphasizing many-valued logics and various structures. It examines neighbourhood semantics and their relationship to independence, highlighting similarities and differences among different logical systems. The comprehensive analysis offers insights into the intricate connections within the field of logic, making it a valuable resource for those interested in advanced logical theories.

En dépit de sa brièveté, l'essai de Schlechta reste aujourd'hui l'une des meilleures introductions à la lecture de Nietzsche - on y trouve à la fois un panorama général de son ceuvre qui en dégage l'intention, permet d'éviter le piège d'une conception de Nietzsche fondée uniquement sur la juxtaposition aléatoire d'aphorismes et lui refusant ainsi toute unité, une étude approfondie d'un des problèmes essentiels de cette philosophie - la critique de l'historicisme -, une analyse détaillée de la « légende » qui s'est créée autour du personnage et qui, en dépit parfois de ses meilleures intentions, finit par l'étouffer, ainsi qu'une controverse avec Rudolf Pannwitz où Schlechta fait litière de toutes les interprétations qui se sont fondées sur l'existence effective de La Volonté de puissance, en montrant clairement quelles dérives a pu cautionner cette interprétation erronée. Comprendre Nietzsche à travers son ceuvre véritable et non les falsifications dont elle fut l'objet, lui reconnaître, enfin, le statut de philosophe, passe par la lecture de cet essai.

Nonmonotonic logics were created as an abstraction of some types of common sense reasoning, analogous to the way classical logic serves to formalize ideal reasoning about mathematical objects. These logics are nonmonotonic in the sense that enlarging the set of axioms does not necessarily imply an enlargement of the set of formulas deducible from these axioms. Such situations arise naturally, for example, in the use of information of different degrees of reliability. This book emphasizes basic concepts by outlining connections between different formalisms of nonmonotonic logic, and gives a coherent presentation of recent research results and reasoning techniques. It provides a self-contained state-of-the-art survey of the area addressing researchers in AI lo

(...) In bald 200 Jahren Rezeptionsgeschichte wurde Goethes "Wilhelm Meister" fast durchweg auf einige wenige 'Ideen' reduziert, die man unter dem Namen Bildungsroman zusammenfaßte. Karl Schlechtas Buch, zuerst 1953 erschienen, bricht mit dieser Deutungstradition und erschließt wieder - in einer dicht geschriebenen Darstellung - die erzählerische Fülle, den Zauber und die Unmittelbarkeit von Goethes Werk. Und er entdeckt im subtilen Mit- und Gegeneinander dieses an Farben und Stimmen so reichen Romans eine ironische Distanz Goethes gegenüber dem, was emphatisch als 'Bildung' verbucht wurde: der 'Bildungsroman' wird als Zerstörungsroman kenntlich, in dem es mehr um Verluste an ursprünglichem Leben als um positive Lernprozesse geht. Schlechta unternimmt eine Entdeckungsreise zu einem scheinbar so bekannten Roman. Sein Werk zu Goethes "Wilhelm Meister" ist in manchem der Neuerschließung von Goethes "Wahlverwandtschaften" durch Walter Benjamins berühmten Essay vergleichbar.

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