TY  - BOOK
AU  - Novaes,Catarina Dutilh
TI  - Formal languages in logic: a philosophical and cognitive analysis 
SN  - 9781139776646
AV  - QA267.3 .N68 2012eb
U1  - 511.3 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Formal languages
KW  - Reasoning
KW  - Cognition
KW  - Langages formels
KW  - cognition
KW  - aat
KW  - MATHEMATICS
KW  - Logic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Infinity
KW  - fast
KW  - Formale Sprache
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kognition
KW  - Logik
KW  - Logica
KW  - gtt
KW  - Formele talen
KW  - sao
KW  - Språkfilosofi
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- 1. Two notions of formality -- 2. On the very notion of a formal language -- 3. The history, purposes and limitations of formal languages -- 4. How we do reason, and the need for counterbalance in science -- 5. Formal languages and extended cognition -- 6. De-semantification -- 7. The debiasing effect of formalization -- Conclusion
N2  - "Formal Languages in Logic Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects, and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this book, Catarina Dutilh Novaes adopts a much wider conception of formal languages so as to investigate more broadly what exactly is going on when theorists put these tools to use. She looks at the history and philosophy of formal languages, and focuses on the cognitive impact of formal languages on human reasoning, drawing on their historical development, psychology, cognitive science, and philosophy"--
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