The Logic of Priorities
Title | The Logic of Priorities PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Saaty |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 940173383X |
This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas L. Saaty to deal with unstructured decision problems, together with case histories developed by him and in collaboration with others in areas of current societal concern. Its purpose is to provide the reader with examples of how to deal with unstructured problems, particularly ones involving socio economic and political issues with qualitative and intangible factors. These examples show how to use judgment and experience to analyze a com plex decision problem by combining its qualitative and quantitative aspects in a single framework and generating a set of priorities for alternative courses of action. The process has inherent flexibilities in structuring a problem and in taking diverse judgments from people, whether singly, in a group working together, or by questionnaire. Decisionmakers will profit from this approach. It makes accessible to them a framework for understanding the complexity of the system they are in as it impinges on the surrounding environment. To deal with complexity, we must first understand it. Systems thinking is necessary if all the important factors are to be considered. Complex systems problems can challenge and tax our logical capability to fully understand their causes and the consequences of any action we may take to solve them. Neverthe less, in time their effects on us tend to become better known than their causes.
The Priority of Propositions. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Logic
Title | The Priority of Propositions. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Logic PDF eBook |
Author | María José Frápolli |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2023-02-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3031252292 |
This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege ́s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and continued by Hilbert and Tarski is completely alien to Frege's approach in the Begriffsschrift. A central thesis of the book is that judgeable contents, i.e. propositions, are the primary bearers of logical properties, which makes logic embedded in our conceptual system. This approach allows coherent and correct definitions of logical constants, logical consequence, and truth and connects their use to the practices of rational agents in science and everyday life.
Multicriteria Decision Making
Title | Multicriteria Decision Making PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Saaty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780962031717 |
The Logic of Discovery
Title | The Logic of Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | S. Kleiner |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9401582165 |
Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the best objectives (questions) and optimal means for achieving these objectives (heuristics) are chosen. This book includes a discussion and some proposals regarding the way the logic of questions can be applied to understanding scientific research and draws upon work in artificial intelligence in a discussion of heuristics and methods for appraising heuristics (metaheuristics). It also includes a discussion of a third source for scientific objectives and heuristics; episodes and examplars from the history of science and the history of philosophy. This book is written to be accessible to advanced students in philosophy and to the scientific community. It is of interest to philosophers of science, philosophers of biology, historians of physics, and historians of biology.
The Logic of Autonomy
Title | The Logic of Autonomy PDF eBook |
Author | Jan-R Sieckmann |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2012-11-13 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1782250204 |
Autonomy is the central idea of modern practical philosophy. Understood as self-legislation, autonomy seems to require that the validity of norms depends on recognition, namely, that their addressees, being autonomous agents, recognise these norms to be valid. But how can one be bound by norms whose validity depends on their being recognised as valid by their addressees? The questions of how autonomous morality and, on this basis, the authoritative character of law can be understood, present persistent puzzles that have been widely discussed, but still await a satisfactory solution. This book presents an analysis of the idea of autonomy as self-legislation and its consequences for law and morality. It links the idea of autonomy with the idea of the balancing of normative arguments, develops a notion of normative arguments as distinct from normative judgements and statements and explains claims to correctness and objectivity that are found in normative discourse. Thus, a 'logic of autonomy' emerges, and it is pervasive in normative reasoning. It connects theses regarding the logic of norms, the structure of balancing, human and fundamental rights, legal validity, legal interpretation, and the relations among legal systems, offering a theory of central elements of normative argumentation, a theory that is undergirded by the mutual relations that exist between and among its parts as well as through the relations that it bears to other theories. Moreover, it offers an alternative to Kantian notions of autonomy and provides solutions to problems that other theories have failed to master.
The Logic of Sufficiency
Title | The Logic of Sufficiency PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Princen |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
With examples ranging from timbering and fishing to automobility and meat production, Princen shows that sufficiency is perfectly sensible and yet absolutely contrary to modern society's dominant principle, efficiency. He argues that seeking enough when more is possible is both intuitive and rational - personally, organisationally and ecologically rational. And under global ecological constraint, it is ethical. Over the long term, an economy - indeed a society--cannot operate as if there's never enough and never too much.
Logic Synthesis and SOC Prototyping
Title | Logic Synthesis and SOC Prototyping PDF eBook |
Author | Vaibbhav Taraate |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2020-01-03 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9811513147 |
This book describes RTL design, synthesis, and timing closure strategies for SOC blocks. It covers high-level RTL design scenarios and challenges for SOC design. The book gives practical information on the issues in SOC and ASIC prototyping using modern high-density FPGAs. The book covers SOC performance improvement techniques, testing, and system-level verification. The book also describes the modern Xilinx FPGA architecture and their use in SOC prototyping. The book covers the Synopsys DC, PT commands, and use of them to constraint and to optimize SOC design. The contents of this book will be of use to students, professionals, and hobbyists alike.