Temporal truth-function

Burroughs Truth Function Eyaluator

Function and Truth in Ethics

In the first part of The Ethical Project Philip Kitcher provides a naturalistic account of the function of ethical practice. Though he conceives of this as an unashamedly empirical task— Kitcher denies that the function of ethical practice is to get at the ethical truth, or to get people to behave in accordance with the ethical truth—it is not one that he thinks has a debunking upshot. Instead ...

A Linguistic Truth-Valued Temporal Reasoning Formalism and Its Implementation

Temporality and uncertainty are important features of many real world systems. Solving problems in such systems requires the use of formal mechanism such as logic systems, statistical methods or other reasoning and decision-making methods. In this paper, we propose a linguistic truth-valued temporal reasoning formalism to enable the management of both features concurrently using a linguistic tr...

Alternating Automata: Checking Truth and Validity for Temporal Logics

We describe an automata-theoretic approach to the automated checking of truth and validity for temporal logics. The basic idea underlying this approach is that for any formula we can construct an alternating automaton that accepts precisely the models of the formula. For linear temporal logics the automaton runs on infinite words while for branching temporal logics the automaton runs on infinit...

The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth

This discussion aims to provide the occasional medical expert witness with background knowledge of the adversarial court system and the role of the medical expert witness within it. The parallel evolution of the adversarial and inquisitorial legal systems has been more out of tradition rather than any systematic review of the effectiveness of one system or the other. Both legal systems have the...