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  1. Logics for epistemic programs.Alexandru Baltag & Lawrence S. Moss - 2004 - Synthese 139 (2):165 - 224.
    We construct logical languages which allow one to represent a variety of possible types of changes affecting the information states of agents in a multi-agent setting. We formalize these changes by defining a notion of epistemic program. The languages are two-sorted sets that contain not only sentences but also actions or programs. This is as in dynamic logic, and indeed our languages are not significantly more complicated than dynamic logics. But the semantics is more complicated. In general, the semantics of (...)
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    (2 other versions)Boolean Semantics for Natural Language.Lawrence S. Moss - 1987 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 52 (2):554-555.
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    Topological reasoning and the logic of knowledge.Andrew Dabrowski, Lawrence S. Moss & Rohit Parikh - 1996 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 78 (1-3):73-110.
    We present a bimodal logic suitable for formalizing reasoning about points and sets, and also states of the world and views about them. The most natural interpretation of the logic is in subset spaces , and we obtain complete axiomatizations for the sentences which hold in these interpretations. In addition, we axiomatize the validities of the smaller class of topological spaces in a system we call topologic . We also prove decidability for these two systems. Our results on topologic relate (...)
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  4. Logics for the relational syllogistic.Ian Pratt-Hartmann & Lawrence S. Moss - 2009 - Review of Symbolic Logic 2 (4):647-683.
    The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of certain inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relational syllogistic. We identify several fragments based on (a) whether negation is permitted on all nouns, including those in the subject of a sentence; and (b) whether the subject noun phrase may contain a relative clause. The logics we present are extensions of the classical syllogistic, and we pay special attention to the question of whether reductio (...)
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  5. A Simple Logic of Concepts.Thomas F. Icard & Lawrence S. Moss - 2022 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 52 (3):705-730.
    In Pietroski ( 2018 ) a simple representation language called SMPL is introduced, construed as a hypothesis about core conceptual structure. The present work is a study of this system from a logical perspective. In addition to establishing a completeness result and a complexity characterization for reasoning in the system, we also pinpoint its expressive limits, in particular showing that the fourth corner in the square of opposition (“ Some_not ”) eludes expression. We then study a seemingly small extension, called (...)
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    The Undecidability of Iterated Modal Relativization.Joseph S. Miller & Lawrence S. Moss - 2005 - Studia Logica 79 (3):373-407.
    In dynamic epistemic logic and other fields, it is natural to consider relativization as an operator taking sentences to sentences. When using the ideas and methods of dynamic logic, one would like to iterate operators. This leads to iterated relativization. We are also concerned with the transitive closure operation, due to its connection to common knowledge. We show that for three fragments of the logic of iterated relativization and transitive closure, the satisfiability problems are fi1 11–complete. Two of these fragments (...)
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    Coalgebraic logic.Lawrence S. Moss - 1999 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 96 (1-3):277-317.
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    Finite models constructed from canonical formulas.Lawrence S. Moss - 2007 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 36 (6):605 - 640.
    This paper obtains the weak completeness and decidability results for standard systems of modal logic using models built from formulas themselves. This line of work began with Fine (Notre Dame J. Form. Log. 16:229-237, 1975). There are two ways in which our work advances on that paper: First, the definition of our models is mainly based on the relation Kozen and Parikh used in their proof of the completeness of PDL, see (Theor. Comp. Sci. 113-118, 1981). The point is to (...)
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    Syllogistic Logic with Cardinality Comparisons, on Infinite Sets.Lawrence S. Moss & Selçuk Topal - 2020 - Review of Symbolic Logic 13 (1):1-22.
    This article enlarges classical syllogistic logic with assertions having to do with comparisons between the sizes of sets. So it concerns a logical system whose sentences are of the following forms: Allxareyand Somexarey, There are at least as manyxasy, and There are morexthany. Herexandyrange over subsets (not elements) of a giveninfiniteset. Moreover,xandymay appear complemented (i.e., as$\bar{x}$and$\bar{y}$), with the natural meaning. We formulate a logic for our language that is based on the classical syllogistic. The main result is a soundness/completeness theorem. (...)
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  10. Quantum Logic as Motivated by Quantum Computing.J. Michael Dunn, Tobias J. Hagge, Lawrence S. Moss & Zhenghan Wang - 2005 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 70 (2):353 - 359.
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    The Soundness of Internalized Polarity Marking.Lawrence S. Moss - 2012 - Studia Logica 100 (4):683-704.
    This paper provides a foundation for the polarity marking technique introduced by David Dowty [3] in connection with monotonicity reasoning in natural language and in linguistic analyses of negative polarity items based on categorial grammar. Dowty's work is an alternative to the better-known algorithmic approach first proposed by Johan van Benthem [11], and elaborated by Víctor Sánchez Valencia [10]. Dowty's system internalized the monotonicity/polarity markings by generating strings using a categorial grammar whose categories already contain the markings that the earlier (...)
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    Modal correspondence for models.Jon Barwise & Lawrence S. Moss - 1998 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 27 (3):275-294.
    This paper considers the correspondence theory from modal logic and obtains correspondence results for models as opposed to frames. The key ideas are to consider infinitary modal logic, to phrase correspondence results in terms of substitution instances of a given modal formula, and to identify bisimilar model-world pairs.
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    Power set recursion.Lawrence S. Moss - 1995 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 71 (2):247-306.
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  14. Natural logic.Lawrence S. Moss - 1996 - In Shalom Lappin (ed.), The handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Cambridge, Mass., USA: Blackwell Reference.
     
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    Non-wellfounded set theory.Lawrence S. Moss - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Syllogistic Logic with Comparative Adjectives.Lawrence S. Moss - 2011 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 20 (3):397-417.
    This paper adds comparative adjectives to two systems of syllogistic logic. The comparatives are interpreted by transitive and irreflexive relations on the underlying domain. The main point is to obtain sound and complete axiomatizations of the valid formulas in the logics.
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    Grammar formalisms viewed as evolving algebras.David E. Johnson & Lawrence S. Moss - 1994 - Linguistics and Philosophy 17 (6):537 - 560.
    We consider the use ofevolving algebra methods of specifying grammars for natural languages. We are especially interested in distributed evolving algebras. We provide the motivation for doing this, and we give a reconstruction of some classic grammar formalisms in directly dynamic terms. Finally, we consider some technical questions arising from the use of direct dynamism in grammar formalisms.
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    Logic, Language, Information, and Computation: 22nd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2015, Bloomington, IN, USA, July 20-23, 2015, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 9160).Valeria de Paiva, Ruy de Queiroz, Lawrence S. Moss, Daniel Leivant & Anjolina G. De Oliveira - 2015 - Springer.
    Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation, WoLLIC 2015, held in the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA in July 2015. The 14 contributed papers, presented together with 8 invited lectures and 4 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The focus of the workshop was on interdisciplinary research involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and (...)
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    Introduction.David E. Johnson & Lawrence S. Moss - 1997 - Linguistics and Philosophy 20 (6):571-574.
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    Exploring the Landscape of Relational Syllogistic Logics.Alex Kruckman & Lawrence S. Moss - 2021 - Review of Symbolic Logic 14 (3):728-765.
    This paper explores relational syllogistic logics, a family of logical systems related to reasoning about relations in extensions of the classical syllogistic. These are all decidable logical systems. We prove completeness theorems and complexity results for a natural subfamily of relational syllogistic logics, parametrized by constructors for terms and for sentences.
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    Ann. pure appl. logic : Erratum to “coalgebraic logic” 96 277–317.Lawrence S. Moss - 1999 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 99 (1-3):241-259.
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    Dynamic interpretations of constraint-based grammar formalisms.Lawrence S. Moss & David E. Johnson - 1995 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 4 (1):61-79.
    We present a rendering of some common grammatical formalisms in terms of evolving algebras. Though our main concern in this paper is on constraint-based formalisms, we also discuss the more basic case of context-free grammars. Our aim throughout is to highlight the use of evolving algebras as a specification tool to obtain grammar formalisms.
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    Exploring logical dynamics, Johan Van Benthem.Lawrence S. Moss - 2000 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 9 (2):261-263.
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    Joseph S. Miller Lawrence S. Moss.Lawrence S. Moss - 2001 - Studia Logica 68:1-37.
  25. Logic, Langage and Computation, Volume 2.Lawrence S. Moss, Jonathan Ginzburg & Maarten de Rijke (eds.) - 1999 - Center for the Study of Language and Inf.
     
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    2010 north american annual meeting of the association for symbolic logic.Alexander Razborov, Bob Coecke, Zoé Chatzidakis, Bjørn Kjos, Nicolaas P. Landsman, Lawrence S. Moss, Dilip Raghavan, Tom Scanlon, Ernest Schimmerling & Henry Towsner - 2011 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 17 (1):127-154.
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    Special Issue on the Occasion of Johan van Benthem’s 60th Birthday—Editorial.Hans van Ditmarsch & Lawrence S. Moss - 2009 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (6):587-588.
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    Editors' Introduction: The Third Life of Quantum Logic: Quantum Logic Inspired by Quantum Computing. [REVIEW]J. Michael Dunn, Lawrence S. Moss & Zhenghan Wang - 2013 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 42 (3):443-459.
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    Books received. [REVIEW]Janusz Czelakowski & Lawrence S. Moss - 1991 - Studia Logica 50 (1):425-430.
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    (1 other version)Barbara H. Partee, Alice ter Meulen, and Robert E. Wall. Mathematical methods in linguistics. Studies in linguistics and philosophy, vol. 30. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, and London, 1990, xx + 663 pp. [REVIEW]Lawrence S. Moss - 1992 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 57 (1):271-272.