Excerpt from A Logical Framework for Solid Object Physics It should also be noted that the mathematics used here is not qualitative in the narrow sense of much recent work on naive physics (bobrow, that is, it does not represent quantities purely in terms of order relationships and constants. I do not consider this a weakness, however; as I have argued elsewhere, (davis, forthcoming), this is an unacceptably restricting limitation for many types of common sense reasoning. The logical system is qualitative in the sense that it can work with partially specified information. This is the only sense that matters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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