Colligation or the logical inference of interconnection

The concept of interconnection is fundamental to the modelling of discrete, physical systems. On the basis of centuries of scientific experience, everyone will agree that the concept is part of a logically consistent approach, permitting us to draw conclusions, verifiable by observation, from basic...

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Published inMathematics and computers in simulation Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 1 - 9
Main Authors Franksen, Ole Immanuel, Falster, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.03.2000
Elsevier
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Algorithmics. Computability. Computer arithmetics
Applied sciences
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Colligation
Computer science; control theory; systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Exact sciences and technology
Inference
Interconnection
Logic
Software
Theoretical computing
Array
Inference
Colligation
Logic
Interconnection
Reasoning
Mathematical logic
Interconnected system
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Summary:The concept of interconnection is fundamental to the modelling of discrete, physical systems. On the basis of centuries of scientific experience, everyone will agree that the concept is part of a logically consistent approach, permitting us to draw conclusions, verifiable by observation, from basic laws or assumptions. Yet interconnection as an abstract concept seems to be without scientific underpinning in pure logic. Adopting a historical viewpoint, our aim is to show that the reasoning of interconnection may be identified with a neglected kind of logical inference, called ‘colligation’ by Charles Sanders Peirce.
ISSN:0378-4754
1872-7166
DOI:10.1016/S0378-4754(99)00152-4