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unusual facts about Jon Barwise


Jon Barwise

Born in Independence, Missouri to Kenneth T. and Evelyn, he was a precocious child.


Frederic Brenton Fitch

Jon Barwise and John Etchemendy, Language, Proof, and Logic, Seven Bridges Press and CSLI, 1999.

Situation theory

Situation theory provides the mathematical foundations to situation semantics, and was developed by writers such as Jon Barwise and Keith Devlin in the 1980s.

Universal logic

Three model-theoretic directions for universal logic have been explored to some depth: abstract model theory axiomatized by Jon Barwise, a topological / categorical approach based on sketches (sometimes called categorical model theory), and yet another categorical approach based on Goguen and Burstall's notion of institution.


see also

John Etchemendy

His latest book, written with Jon Barwise and Dave Barker-Plummer, is Language, Proof and Logic (2000, 2006), a popular introductory logic textbook.