There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this article, we reflect on the use of formal methods in the philosophy of science. These are taken to comprise not just methods from logic ...

Computational logic and formal languages form a cornerstone of modern computer science and mathematics, providing the theoretical framework by which algorithms, automated reasoning systems and even ...

We present a dynamic approach to Peirce's original construal of abductive logic as a logic of conjecture making, and provide a new decidable, contraction-free and cut-free proof system for the dynamic ...

We, as human beings, have limited access to the enormous data feed to which we are exposed every day. We do not see the full spectrum of wave energy, we do not perceive the full audio range, and one ...