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Petre Botezatu: logica naturală spaţio-temporală
Petre Botezatu: Natural spatial-temporal logic

Author(s): Elena Calistru
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Spatial-temporal operational logic; spatial relations; temporal relations; inferential tables

Summary/Abstract: Petre Botezatu built an operative natural logic in which he theorized on the logical operations which take place in the real endeavours of the thinking process. Within this construction, he also developed a spatial-temporal logic, starting from the idea that the multitude of phenomena is partly and irreflexive ordered, and from the idea that the operation of transitivity is performed between different proprieties of space and time, fact which allows the development of some deductive inferences. Although there are spatial relations between phenomena, such as to the right, to the left, in front of, behind, and temporal relations: before, simultaneously, Petre Botezatu used only one transitive relation: sequencing, which characterizes both time and space. He described a system of spatial-temporal deductive inferences, system which consists of four inferential tables, each having four logical figures.

  • Issue Year: IX/2013
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 263-266
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian
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