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Vicious Circles(74th Edition)
On the Mathematics of Non-Wellfounded Phenomena (CSLI Lecture Notes)
by Jon Barwise, Lawrence Stuart Moss, A. Mair
Paperback, 390 Pages, Published 1996 by Center For The Study Of Language And Inf
ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-008-4, ISBN: 1-57586-008-2

"The subject of non-wellfounded sets came to prominence with the 1988 publication of Peter Aczel's book on the subject. Since then, a number of researchers in widely differing fields have used non-wellfounded sets (also called "hypersets") in modeling many types of circular phenomena. The application areas range from knowledge representation and theoretical economics to the semantics of natural language and programming languages. Vicious ..."

Vicious Circles(74th Edition)
(Lecture Notes)
by Jon Barwise, Lawrence S. Moss, A. Mair
Hardcover, 390 Pages, Published 1996 by Center For The Study Of Language And Inf
ISBN-13: 978-1-57586-009-1, ISBN: 1-57586-009-0

"Circular analyses of philosophical, linguistic, or computational phenomena have been attacked on the assumption that they conflict with mathematical rigour. Barwise and Moss have undertaken to prove this assumption false. This volume is concerned with extending the modelling capabilities of set theory to provide a uniform treatment of circular phenomena. As a means of guiding the reader through the concrete examples of the theory, the a ..."

Joseph A. Schumpeter
Historian of Economics : Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought
by Laurence S. Moss, Lawrence Moss
336 Pages, Published 1996 by Psychology Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-203-43597-7, ISBN: 0-203-43597-4

"With contributions by leading historians of economics from six countries, this volume analyses Schumpeter's contribution to the history of economics, considers its lasting significance, and uses it as a benchmark to assess the current state ..."