Tarski's World

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-07-15
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary

Tarski's Worldis an innovative and exciting method of introducing students to the language of first-order logic. Using the courseware package, students quickly master the meanings of connectives and qualifiers and soon become fluent in the symbolic language at the core of modern logic. The program allows students to build three-dimensional worlds and then describe them in first-order logic. The program, compatible with Macintosh and PC formats, also contains a unique and effective corrective tool in the form of a game, which methodically leads students back through their errors if they wrongly evaluate the sentences in the constructed worlds. A brand new feature in this revised and expanded edition is student access to Grade Grinder, an innovative Internet-based grading service that provides accurate and timely feedback to students whenever they need it. Students can submit solutions for the program's more than 100 exercises to the Grade Grinder for assessment, and the results are returned quickly to the students and optionally to the teacher as well. A web-based interface also allows instructors to manage assignments and grades for their classes. Intended as a supplement to a standard logic text,Tarski's Worldis an essential tool for helping students learn the language of logic.

Author Biography

Dave Barker-Plummer is senior research scientist with the Openproof Project at the Center for the Study of Language and Information John Etchemendy is professor of philosophy and symbolic systems at Stanford University and a former director of CSLI Albert Liu is a software developer at CSLI

Table of Contents

How to Use This Bookp. xi
To the studentp. xii
To the instructorp. xiii
Acknowledgementsp. xv
What's new in this edition?p. xv
More acknowledgementsp. xvi
Exercises
Instructions About the Exercisesp. 3
Exercises on Propositional Logicp. 9
Exercises on First-order Logicp. 25
More Theoretical Exercisesp. 53
Using the Software
Using Tarski's Worldp. 67
Getting startedp. 67
Opening saved filesp. 68
Starting new filesp. 68
Saving a filep. 68
Closing Tabsp. 69
Reverting a Filep. 69
Printingp. 70
Quitting (Exiting) Tarski's Worldp. 70
The World Panelp. 70
Adding blocksp. 70
Selecting blocksp. 70
Moving blocksp. 70
Sizing and shaping blocksp. 70
Naming blocksp. 71
Deleting blocksp. 71
Cutting, copying, and pasting blocksp. 71
Hiding labelsp. 72
2-D viewp. 72
Rotating Worldsp. 72
The Sentence Panelp. 72
Writing formulasp. 72
Commenting your sentencesp. 73
Creating a list of sentencesp. 73
Moving from sentence to sentencep. 73
Deleting sentencesp. 74
Typing symbols from the keyboardp. 74
Cutting, copying, and pastingp. 75
Verifying syntax and truthp. 75
Playing the gamep. 76
Picking blocks and sentencesp. 76
Backing up and giving upp. 76
When to play the gamep. 77
Preferencesp. 78
Using Submitp. 81
Getting startedp. 81
Choosing files to submitp. 83
How you know your files were receivedp. 85
Saving your user datap. 85
Appendixes
First-order Logicp. 89
First-order languagesp. 89
Individual constantsp. 90
Predicate symbolsp. 90
Atomic sentencesp. 91
Connectivesp. 92
Variablesp. 95
Atomic wffsp. 96
Quantifiersp. 96
Wffs and sentencesp. 97
Satisfaction and truthp. 100
Game rulesp. 101
Logical equivalencesp. 103
Validity and logical consequencep. 104
Using Tarski's World 5.xp. 107
Getting startedp. 107
Launching Tarski's Worldp. 107
The main windowsp. 107
Opening saved filesp. 109
Starting new filesp. 110
Saving a filep. 110
Quitting (Exiting) Tarski's Worldp. 110
The world windowp. 111
Adding blocksp. 111
Naming blocksp. 111
Moving blocksp. 111
Sizing and shaping blocksp. 112
Deleting blocksp. 112
Hiding labelsp. 112
2-D viewp. 112
Rotating Worldsp. 113
The keyboard and sentence windowsp. 113
Writing formulasp. 113
Commenting your sentencesp. 114
Creating a list of sentencesp. 114
Moving from sentence to sentencep. 114
Deleting sentencesp. 115
Typing symbols from the keyboardp. 115
Cutting, copying, and pastingp. 116
Printingp. 116
The evaluation box / sentence inspectorp. 116
Verifying syntax and truthp. 116
Playing the gamep. 117
Picking blocks and sentencesp. 118
Backing up and giving upp. 118
When to play the gamep. 119
General Indexp. 121
File Indexp. 125
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