There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...

“THROUGHOUT this book ‘formal’ logic is identified not only with the logic which expressly calls itself formal, or ‘deductive,’ but with any logic which, like the ordinary ‘inductive’ logic, is, in ...

This course is available on the BSc in Management, BSc in Philosophy and Economics, BSc in Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics, BSc in ...

We present a dynamic approach to Peirce's original construal of abductive logic as a logic of conjecture making, and provide a new decidable, contraction-free and cut-free proof system for the dynamic ...