A framework for priority arguments

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lerman M. (Manuel), 1943-
Corporate Authors: Association for Symbolic Logic
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge [England] New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Lecture notes in logic ; 34
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Carrier Form: xvi, 176 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780521119696 (hbk.)
0521119693 (hbk.)
Index Number: O141
CLC: O141.2
Call Number: O141.2/L616
Contents: "Association for Symbolic Logic."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-176).
"This book presents a unifying framework for using priority arguments to prove theorems in computability. Priority arguments provide the most powerful theorem-proving technique in the field, but most of the applications of this technique are ad hoc, masking the unifying principles used in the proofs. The proposed framework presented isolates many of these unifying combinatorial principles and uses them to give shorter and easier-to-follow proofs of computability-theoretic theorems...