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- Fuzzy logic, when construed in a wider sense, is the theory of fuzzy ... When construed in a narrower sense, fuzzy logic is an extension of ...15 KB (2,285 words) - 07:24, 15 April 2024
- and economist. Best known as the father of the influential economist John ... Religious Test Acts from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. After ...9 KB (1,331 words) - 07:01, 3 August 2022
- a specified statement follows from a set of assumed statements. The specified ... the conclusion is a necessary consequence of the set of premises, i.e. the ...9 KB (1,489 words) - 23:56, 1 December 2022
- Abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a method of reasoning ... Peirce formulated abduction as a method of scientific research and introduced ...14 KB (2,177 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- In traditional Aristotelian logic, deduction or deductive reasoning ... they are false deductions. Examples of such false or invalid deductive ...16 KB (2,607 words) - 09:05, 28 January 2024
- The Verifiability theory of meaning was put forth in the early twentieth ... Adherents of the verifiability principle claimed that all statements ...8 KB (1,167 words) - 18:01, 3 May 2023
- proportions, principle, standard, or logic, among other things. In religious ... such as Dao (Tao), the Vedic notion of rta, and the Hindu and Buddhist ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- : Another John Venn was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1686–1687. ... fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 08:01, 3 August 2022
- philosopher. See also Chrysippus (mythology) of Greek mythology Chrysippus of Soli (c. 280 B.C.E. - c. 207 B.C.E.) is considered to ...9 KB (1,399 words) - 21:54, 10 December 2023
- Principle in philosophy and mathematics means a fundamental law or ... others, while laws and rules can. Greek philosophy began as the quest for ...9 KB (1,192 words) - 22:57, 30 November 2022
- and also neo-positivism) is a philosophy that combines positivism ... statements (everyone agreed on the existence of analytic a priori and synthetic ...13 KB (1,922 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- symptomatic, from sema, sign) is a theory of the aspects of meanings of ... There are various kinds of studies in semantics in various fields ...13 KB (1,868 words) - 17:49, 25 January 2023
- ) was a polymath and a Christian philosopher of the sixth century who was instrumental ... Rome around 480 C.E. to the patrician family of Anicii, who had been Christians ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 06:07, 28 July 2023
- Reason, in philosophy, is the ability to form and operate upon concepts ... other related concepts such as: language, logic, consciousness, knowledge ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- Neo-Hegelianism refers to several schools of thought associated with ... name is also applied to other philosophers of that period who took their ...8 KB (1,042 words) - 16:16, 11 November 2022
- is the proposal about the notion of computability, called the Church ... Other relevant contributions by Church are the proofs of the undecidablility ...10 KB (1,376 words) - 08:20, 23 July 2023
- Inference is the act or process of deriving a conclusion based on ... is traditionally studied within the field of cognitive psychology. ...20 KB (3,113 words) - 22:38, 5 February 2023
- Part of the foundation of mathematics, Russell's paradox (also ... Consider the set R of all sets that do not contain themselves as members ...14 KB (2,342 words) - 18:15, 22 December 2022
- In linguistics, logic, and mathematics etc., quantification is the ... The notion of quantification in the context of linguistics, logic ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 04:04, 7 December 2022
- He helped found both modern mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. ... Frege began his studies at the University of Jena in 1869, moving to Göttingen ...16 KB (2,250 words) - 20:22, 11 September 2021
