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Great Courses volume 16
Language
English
Description
So far, you have learned two approaches to logic: Aristotle's categorical method and truth-functional logic. Now add a third, hybrid approach, first-order predicate logic, which allows you to get inside sentences to map the logical structure within them.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 17
Language
English
Description
For all of their power, truth tables won't work to demonstrate validity in first-order predicate arguments. For that, you need natural deduction proofs-plus four additional rules of inference and one new equivalence. Review these procedures and then try several examples.
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English
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As Kylo Ren and the sinister First Order rise from the ashes of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is missing when the galaxy needs him most. It's up to Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, a defecting stormtrooper, to join forces with Han Solo and Chewbacca in a desperate search for the one hope of restoring peace to the galaxy.
5) Carrie
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carrie White, a sheltered high school girl and outcast, unleashes her newly developed telekinetic powers after she is pushed too far by her peers at the senior prom when they decide to pull a prank on her.
"She blows stuff up real good, in a way that would make the devil - or Bruce Willis - proud."--Entertainment Weekly
"A work of smooth confidence and a humane, dimensionally human brand of horror."--Chicago Tribune
"The movie is very good, both...
Author
Series
One Piece volume 36
Language
English
Description
After another beating from Garp, Luffy and his friends take to the jungle and build a pirate hideout at the top of an enormous tree. First order of business: booby trap the new place!
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 23
Language
English
Description
Add two new operators to your first-order predicate vocabulary: a symbol for possibility and another for necessity. These allow you to deal with modal concepts, which are contingent or necessary truths. See how philosophers have used modal logic to investigate ethical obligations.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 19
Language
English
Description
Hone your skill with first-order predicate logic by expanding into relations. An example: If I am taller than my son and my son is taller than my wife, then I am taller than my wife. This relation is obvious, but the techniques you learn allow you to prove subtler cases.
Author
Series
Great Courses volume 18
Language
English
Description
Study two techniques for demonstrating that an argument in first-order predicate logic is invalid. The method of counter-example involves scrupulous attention to the full meaning of the words in a sentence, which is an unusual requirement, given the symbolic nature of logic. The method of expansion has no such requirement.
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Series
Hatfields and McCoys White Lightning volume 10
Language
English
Description
With the Moonshine Still ready to go but no liquor investor, Mark Hatfield and Jim McCoy decide to work together and make Moonshine. First order of business is to get the proper licenses and of course the water. Meanwhile Liquor Investor Monsell tries to do business with other Hatfields and McCoys in the area and a paranoid Scotty May thinks the law is after him.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Recruited by Poe Dameron for a top secret Resistance mission, hotshot pilot Kazuda 'Kaz' Xiono finds himself in over his head when he and BB-8 are stationed aboard a large aircraft refueling station. Join Kaz on this high-flying adventure as he struggles to keep his cover as a mechanic and gets entangled with ace pilots, marauding pirates, villainous stormtroopers, and other colorful characters.
12) The bag man
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a career criminal is hired to perform a job, he is first ordered to visit a remote location where he discovers he's not the only one to have received the same request.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The job of the NYPD's Special Victims Unit is to investigate especially heinous sex-related crimes. SVU also noses around the detectives' private lives, where professional detachment is the modus operandi. Knowing that Det. Olivia Benson was conceived during a rape and that her partner, Det. Elliot Stabler, is a fiercely protective dad enhances our understanding of how they react to sexual assault cases. Even the perpetrators are complex. Hot-button...
14) War, Inc
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Turaqistan is a country occupied by an American private corporation run by a former U.S. vice-president. In an effort to monopolize the opportunities the war-torn nation offers, the corporation's CEO hires a troubled hit man to kill a Middle East oil minister. Now, struggling with his own growning demons, the assassin must pose as the corporation's Trade Show producer in order to pull off his current hit. He has to do all this while maintaining his...
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the new 2021 high-definition program, first graders are introduced to adjectives. Adjective order, the punctuation of adjectives, sentence structure with adjectives, using adjectives after a verb, and how to tell a story with adjectives are all explored in detail with exciting graphics and video. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
Publisher
Sentai Filmworks
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
日本語
Description
Before you make a deal with a girl in a mirror, reflect seriously on the source of the offer. Ichika Tachibana fails to take this advice in order to retrieve a lost charm, and as a result suddenly ends up with the magical forces of a Djinn at her command. Sounds like a good deal, right? Wrong. At first things seem wondrous, with her new friend Manatsu assisting her via text messages and the occasional spell, but as her powers grow, Ichika's situation...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
19) Cast Away
Language
English
Description
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization. Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a selfmade calendar....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy to dig it up in order to please her boss....