How Long to Read Factual and Plausible Reasoning

How Long Does it Take to Read Factual and Plausible Reasoning?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read Factual and Plausible Reasoning by David Billington

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Factual reasoning is reasoning with statements that are certain, called facts. Classical propositional logic is often used for such reasoning. However classical propositional logic has two faults. Its most serious fault is the irrational way it behaves when the statements are inconsistent. The second, less serious, fault is that there is an intuitive understanding of the meaning of 'follows from' that classical propositional logic does not capture. Various new consistent subsets of a set of inconsistent statements are investigated. This yields new more rational propositional logics for factual reasoning that capture the missing intuitive meaning of 'follows from'. Logics that do factual reasoning have properties that can be expressed by using consequence functions. A consequence function is meant to be a function whose input is a set of formulas and whose output is the set of consequences of those formulas. However, there is no adequate definition of what a consequence function is. A new definition of what a consequence function should be is proposed and shown to have many desirable properties. Plausible reasoning is reasoning with statements that are either facts, or are likely, called defeasible statements. Moreover all defeasible statements have the same likelihood; hence there are no numbers, like probabilities, involved. Many principles of plausible reasoning are suggested and several important plausible reasoning examples are considered. A propositional logic is defined that satisfies all the principles and reasons correctly with all the examples. As far as we are aware, this is the only such logic.

How long is Factual and Plausible Reasoning?

Factual and Plausible Reasoning by David Billington is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Factual and Plausible Reasoning Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read Factual and Plausible Reasoning aloud.

What Reading Level is Factual and Plausible Reasoning?

Factual and Plausible Reasoning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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