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Record Nr.

UNINA9910676686503321

Autore

Ciardelli Ivano

Titolo

Inquisitive Logic : Consequence and Inference in the Realm of Questions / / by Ivano Ciardelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031097065

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 272 p. 53 illus., 3 illus. in color.)

Collana

Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, , 2212-7313 ; ; 60

Disciplina

160

Soggetti

Logic

Mathematical logic

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Lògica matemàtica

Inferència

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. On the role of questions in logic -- 3. Questions in propositional logic -- 4. Reasoning with questions -- 5. Questions in first-order logic -- 6. Questions in modal logic -- 7. Connections with intuitionistic logic -- 8. Connections with dependence logic -- 9. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions, and can therefore be treated with the logician’s toolkit, including model-theoretic constructions and proof systems. After motivating the enterprise, the book describes how classical propositional and predicate logic can be made inquisitive—i.e., extended conservatively with questions—and what the resulting logics look like in terms of meta-theoretic properties and proof systems. Finally, the book discusses the tight connections between inquisitive



logic and dependence logic.