Accession Number:

ADA071422

Title:

First Order Theories of Individual Concepts and Propositions.

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.,

Corporate Author:

STANFORD UNIV CALIF DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

Personal Author(s):

• McCarthy,John

Report Date:

1979-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

We discuss first order theories in which individual concepts are admitted as mathematical objects along with the things that reify them. This allows very straightforward formalizations of knowledge, belief, wanting, and necessity in ordinary first order logic without modal operators. Applications are given in philosophy and in artificial intelligence. Author

Descriptors:

• *MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• OPERATORS(MATHEMATICS)
• COMPREHENSION

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE