Bilkent ACM SIGART (Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence)

Logic and Reality

by Armagan Yavuz

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Logic is generally understood as "laws of correct reasoning". But what is it that makes rules of logic "correct"? Is it possible for us to discover one day that a rule like modus ponens was in fact incorrect? In short, what is the relation between logic and reality?

Tuesday, 24th Nov. 1998
at 17:40 in EA331 (Eng. Building)

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