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Introduction to Situation Theory Part IV
Situation Semantics Situation theory was developed to support situation semantics. Natural language semantics are rich and the topic of how to represent these semantics, in situation theory or otherwise, is too complex to give justice to here. We will give … Continue reading
Introduction to Situation Theory Part III
Infon Logic Devlin develops an infon logic framework to be used either by a theorist or by an agent. The description of this logic is relatively informal. Infon logic combines basic infons to form non-basic compound infons. Conjuction and disjunction … Continue reading
Introduction to Situation Theory Part II
Fundamentals of Situation Theory Situation theory is built on a rich ontology of objects including infons, situations, n-place relations, individuals, spatial and temporal locations, types, parameters, and polarities. We will adopt the account in (Devlin 1991) and assign to each … Continue reading
Introduction to Situation Theory Part I
What Is Situation Theory? Situation theory is an information theoretic mathematical ontology developed to support situation semantics, an alternative semantics to the better known possible world semantics originally introduced in the 1950s. Rather than a semantics based on total possible … Continue reading
References and Footnotes
These are footnotes and references for the introduction to situation theory series of articles.
