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In this talk we discuss what, according to my long experience, every computer scientists should know from logic. We concentrate on issues of modelling, interpretability and levels of abstraction.We discuss how the minimal toolbox of logic tools should look like for a computer scientist who is involved in designing and analyzing reliable systems. We shall conclude that many classical topics dear to logicians are less important than usually presented, and that less known ideas from logic may be more useful for the working computer scientist.
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Makowsky, J.A. (2007). From Hilbert’s Program to a Logic Toolbox. In: Dershowitz, N., Voronkov, A. (eds) Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning. LPAR 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4790. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75560-9_1
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