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Temporal Logic for Real-time Systems

Providing a framework for modelling, specifying and verifying systems composed of real-time discrete event processes, this text combines a formal framework in computer science with applications in software and control engineering.

details of each legal trajectory . A more abstract method of handling trajectories must thus be found . An important abstraction tool is assertional reasoning , which will be explored in the next chapter . As an introduction to the main ...

South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation

In South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, James J. Hentz addresses changes in South Africa's strategies for regional cooperation and economic development since its transition from apartheid to democracy. Hentz focuses on why the new South African government continues to make regional cooperation a priority and what methods this dominant state uses to pursue its neighborly goals. While providing a synthetic overview of the history of regional cooperation in southern Africa, Hentz considers the logic of cooperation more generally. An extensive discussion of South African politics provides the context for Hentz's exploration of the more widely felt effects of domestic change. Readers interested in the international organization of the politics and economy of southern Africa will find thought-provoking material in this important book.

Rules , Norms , and Decisions : On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International and Domestic Affairs . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1989 . “ State Power and the Structure of International Trade .

The Logic of Policy Inquiry

The principles of sound analogical reasoning are fortunately relatively noncontroversial and can be spelled out in ... Analogical reasoning is not foolproof . ... It is implicit , by necessity , we would argue , in civil law states .

Technology and the Logic of American Racism

A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence

"In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. Among several key American literary texts, she looks at Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a novel whose plot turns on issues of racial identity and which was written at a time when scientific and popular interest in evidence of the body, such as fingerprinting, was at a peak"--Publisher's description.

Legal theorists in Britain and the United States had lesser faith not in an absolute truth , but in their own ability ... In a direct reversal of eighteenth - century beliefs about the logical nature of legal reasoning , 17 Wills argued ...

Temporal Logic for Real-time Systems

Providing a framework for modelling, specifying and verifying systems composed of real-time discrete event processes, this text combines a formal framework in computer science with applications in software and control engineering.

Providing a framework for modelling, specifying and verifying systems composed of real-time discrete event processes, this text combines a formal framework in computer science with applications in software and control engineering.

Is Abortion Logical?

Believe it or not, logic plays a major part

Arguments in favor of abortion are humorously exposed as illogical, by way of compelling (but rather unusual) examples, logical reasoning and historical/legal research. Justifications for abortion which are shot down in this volume are: the 'right' of privacy; the assertion that 'it's my body and I can do what I want with it;' in vitro fertilization; social problems allegedly linked to fertility; the fallacy that unsafe abortions will occur if abortion is not legalized; and more.

Justifications for abortion which are shot down in this volume are: the 'right' of privacy; the assertion that 'it's my body and I can do what I want with it;' in vitro fertilization; social problems allegedly linked to fertility; the ...

Law and Logic

A Critical Account of Legal Argument

This book has two related aims: to investigate the frequently voiced claim that legal argument is nonformal in nature and, within the limits of such an investigation, to ascertain the most general proper ties of law as a rational system. Examination of a number of views of legal argument, selected from recent discussions in Germany, Belgium, and the English-speaking countries, will lead to the follow ing main conclusions. The nonformalistic conceptions of the logic of legal argument are ambiguous and unclear. Moreover, insofar as these conceptions are capable of clarification in the light of recent analytical methodology, they can be seen to be either mistaken or else compatible with the formalistic position. Because law is socially directive and coordinative, it is dependent upon theoretical psycho sociology and calls, in principle, for a deontic and inductive logic. The primary function of legal argument is to provide continuing reinterpretation and confirmation of legal rules, conceived as theo retical prescriptions. On the basis of this conception, the old juris prudential conflict between formalism and rule-scepticism appears substantially resolved. Aristotle, the founder of the theory of argument, conceived it as "the science of establishing conclusions" (bnO'l;~fl'YJ &no~e!"u,,~), designed to guide people in rational argumentation. In time, how ever, logic forsook its practical function and developed as a highly abstract and disinterested study, today called "formal logic"; and the theory of practical argument was either neglected or relegated to an appendix to rhetoric.

This book has two related aims: to investigate the frequently voiced claim that legal argument is nonformal in nature and, within the limits of such an investigation, to ascertain the most general proper ties of law as a rational system.

Emerging Conflicts of Principle

International Relations and the Clash Between Cosmopolitanism and Republicanism

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed by Thomas Kane which characterize world politics today.

Debates over the ethics of war, economic redistribution, resource consumption and the rights and responsibilities associated with membership of a political community are just some of the major conflicts of principle identified and analyzed ...

Politics by Principle, Not Interest

Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy

This book focuses on the effects of applying a generality constraint on the political process.

This book focuses on the effects of applying a generality constraint on the political process.