Analytic Method

Epistēmēs Metron Logos

In this paper we attempt a good unearthing, sound tackling and effective pointing out of the critical key features permeating one of the two cornerstones supporting the total coordination and interplay underlying the complex epistemonic and scientific method: and that would be the constituent methodology concisely known under the cover name “analytic method”. In this attempt, however, it becomes evident very soon that the direct similarities, reciprocities and complementarities to the other cornerstone, concisely known as “abstractive method”, must also be laid out concurrently; the two share the same needs and behaviours, while they must also be mutually disambiguated and framed in inner consistencies and mutual contrast, to assert proper theoretical coverage, fruitful application and mutual impermeability overall.Thus, both of them end up being discussed in parallel. To that end, simple and intuitively appealing proposals are sought, expressed and projected, regarding their key at...

Technology-Based Re-Engineering Engineering Education Proceedings of Frontiers in Education FIE'96 26th Annual Conference, 1996

This paper examines the largely ignored process of analytic problem solving. By applying learning theory to different problem-solving situations, we determine what factors contribute to a positive learning environment. An ideal environment includes facilities to observe the problem states simply and easily, and guidance in abstracting the observations into symbolic expressions.

Acta Analytica, 2009

Quine famously argued that analyticity is indefinable, since there is no good account of analyticity in terms of synonymy, and intensions are of no help since there are no intensions. Yet if there are intensions, the question still remains as to the right account of analyticity in terms of them. On the assumption that intensions must be admitted, the present paper considers two such accounts. The first analyzes analyticity in terms of concept identity, and the second analyzes analyticity in terms of the analysis relation. The first fails in light of possible counterexamples. The second is defended, both by considering test cases of intuitively clear analyticities, and by developing the account in light of possible counterexamples.

2009

This dissertation presents an alternative account of analyticity, as well as arguments for that account. Although an analysis and interpretation of previous accounts of analyticity are presented, the focus is on the analysis of, and the arguments for a solution to, the philosophical problem of the existence of analyticities. The consideration of classical and contemporary texts provides a context for the alternative account of analyticity presented, and the analysis of the arguments against previous accounts of analyticity serve to demonstrate both the need for an alternative account and the means by which it avoids the problems inherent in the previous accounts.

Theoria, 2008

Viewpoint, 2009

suggested was an "impossible profession"? Among many things, my experience of the SSP gave me a respect for the complexity and myriad challenges of learning our "impossible profession," of teaching it, and of the program itself: teaching the teaching of our profession. So much of the SSP seems to turn in on

The present volume …, 2003

The production of high-quality scientific software is a legitimate and valuable contribution to the scientific infrastructure and to science itself. Scientific software can involve both numeric and symbolic calculations. Deductive software consists of symbolic routines for logical manipulations. It includes decision procedures, solvers, rewriters, model checkers, and theorem provers. Deductive software serves as the semantic foundation for a number of scientific and engineering applications in areas such as hardware and software verification, program synthesis and analysis, data-and knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and e-commerce.

2019

This brief introduction is for people who want to know the leading approaches to philosophy in the twentieth century in English-speaking countries but do not have much time to study them. The book contains texts of lectures and quizzes with explained answers. By the end of this book, you will understand what analysis is and how to practice it in a philosophical way. Moreover, you will be able to talk confidently about some of the great ideas of such philosophers as L. Wittgenstein, B. Russell, G. E. Moore, A. Ayer, J. Austin, W. V. O. Quine, P. F. Strawson, and more.

Artificial Intelligence, 1976

Analytic resolution is a proof procedure for predicate calculus based on the ideas of serrumtic trees and analytic tableaux. It is related to the unit preference with set-of-support strategy, and incorporates some features of model elimination. The philosophy is .to expect and compensate for "b//nd alleys" by a stack discipline. This eliminates pollution of the search space by a bad choice of the next step in a proof. Experimental results included compore favourably with others from the literature.