Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Orientador: Walter Alexandre Carnielli / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T13:14:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_AntonioMarmodaCunha_M.pdf: 7643012 bytes, checksum: 1904b2b114fcf86253069cc0fe63eedb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Neste trabalho investigaremos, do ponto de vista da lógica e da filosofia, os fenômenos pragmáticos conhecidos como pressuposição e implicatura, relacionando-os a traços mais gerais da racionalidade humana, como economia e consistência, e ao pluralismo da lógica atual, incluindo alguns tópicos de contenda entre a tradição clássica e as propostas alternativas recentes. Grice articulou uma análise destes fenômenos assentes em princípios para a conversação ou interação entre entes racionais e cooperativos. Divergimos da tradição griceana, postulando que as implicaturas são processadas por "clivagem de informações", ou por verificação de outros critérios lógicos, ao invés da mera exploração de máximas. Partindo de conceitos precisamente definidos, como pressuposição e implicatura, é possível construir um arcabouço lógico, a denominar sistemas pressuposicionais, que estendem outros sistemas lógicos (como, por exemplo, o cálculo proposicional) e cujos resultados exporemos / Abstract: In this work we shall, from the logical and philosophical standpoint, investigate two pragmatic phenomena known as presupposition and implicature, associating them to more general features of human rationality, such as economy and consistency, and to the current logical pluralism, including some controversies between the classical tradition and more recent alternative approaches. Grice has articulated an analysis of such phenomena based on principles governing conversation or interaction between cooperative and rational beings. We dissent from the gricean tradition, and proposing that implicatures are processed by the 'sieving of information', rather than by the mere exploitation of maxims. By providing precise definitions to the concepts of presupposition and implicature, it is possible to build a logical framework, to be called presuppositional systems, which either extend or generalise other logical systems (such as the propositional calculus, for instance), the results of which we shall present hereinafter / Mestrado / Filosofia / Mestre em Filosofia

This master's thesis deals with demonstration of various approaches to probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks. Basics of probability theory, introduction to Bayesian networks, methods for Bayesian inference and applications of Bayesian networks are described in theoretical part. Inference techniques are explained and complemented by their algorithm. Techniques are also illustrated on example. Practical part contains implementation description, experiments with demonstration applications and conclusion of the results.