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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813183103321

Autore

Roeper Peter

Titolo

Probability theory and probability logic / / P. Roeper, H. Leblanc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-282-00825-0

9786612008252

1-4426-7878-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Disciplina

121/.63

Soggetti

Probabilities

Logic

Semantics (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Probability theory -- Introduction -- ch. 1. Probability functions for propositional logic -- ch. 2. The probabilities of infinitary statements and of quantifications -- ch. 3. Relative probability functions and their t-restrictions -- ch. 4. Representing relative probability functions by means of classes of measure functions -- ch. 5. The recursive definability of probability functions -- ch. 6. Families of probability functions characterised by equivalence relations -- pt. II. Probability logic.

Ch. 7. Absolute probability functions construed as representing degrees of logical truth -- ch. 8. Relative probability functions construed as representing degrees of logical consequence -- ch. 9. Absolute probability functions for intuitionistic logic -- ch. 10. Relative probability functions for intuitionistic logic.

Sommario/riassunto

As a survey of many technical results in probability theory and probability logic, this monograph by two widely respected scholars offers a valuable compendium of the principal aspects of the formal study of probability.Hugues Leblanc and Peter Roeper explore probability functions appropriate for propositional, quantificational, intuitionistic, and infinitary logic and investigate the connections



among probability functions, semantics, and logical consequence. They offer a systematic justification of constraints for various types of probability functions, in particular, an exhaustive account of probability functions adequate for first-order quantificational logic. The relationship between absolute and relative probability functions is fully explored and the book offers a complete account of the representation of relative functions by absolute ones.The volume is designed to review familiar results, to place these results within a broad context, and to extend the discussions in new and interesting ways. Authoritative, articulate, and accessible, it will interest mathematicians and philosophers at both professional and post-graduate levels.