A framework for priority arguments

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Label

A framework for priority arguments

Statement of responsibility

Manuel Lerman

Creator

• Lerman, M., (Manuel), 1943-

Subject

• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
• Priority (Philosophy)
• Priority (Philosophy)
• Priority (Philosophy)
• Priority (Philosophy)
• Proof theory
• Proof theory
• Proof theory
• Proof theory
• Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Language

eng

Summary

"This book presents a unifying framework for using priority arguments to prove theorems in computability. Priority arguments provide the most powerful theorem-proving technique in the field, but most of the applications of this technique are ad hoc, masking the unifying principles used in the proofs. The proposed framework presented isolates many of these unifying combinatorial principles and uses them to give shorter and easier-to-follow proofs of computability-theoretic theorems. Standard theorems of priority levels 1, 2, and 3 are chosen to demonstrate the framework's use, with all proofs following the same pattern. The last section features a new example requiring priority at all finite levels. The book will serve as a resource and reference for researchers in logic and computability, helping them to prove theorems in a shorter and more transparent manner"--Provided by publisher

Member of

• Lecture notes in logic, 34

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

no index present

LC call number

QA9.54

LC item number

.L47 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Lecture notes in logic

Series volume

34