Dept. of Philosophy
University of Helsinki
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 14:00
Cybernetica Bldg (Akadeemia tee 21), room B101
Slides from the talk: ppt
Abstract: Last century was predominantly the era of symbolic logic. Earlier, and also relatively recently, iconic versions of logic were and have been suggested. Independence-friendly (IF) first-order logic is aimed at representing different dependencies and independencies between quantified variables. Accordingly, it differentiates between "priority" and "binding" scopes of quantifiers. What is the corresponding iconic logic of these and other IF notions? I will consider C. S. Peirce’s diagrammatic logic of Existential Graphs -- a precursor to Conceptual Graphs widespread in computer science -- and the possibility that independence is captured by adding dimensions to the sheets of assertions.