The quantitative/qualitative watershed for rules of uncertain inference

DOI10.1007/s11225-007-9061-xzbMath1130.03022MaRDI QIDQ2454645

David Makinson, James Hawthorne

Publication date: 16 October 2007

Published in: Studia Logica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/3361/1/The_quantitative-qualitative_watershed_for_rules_%28LSERO%29.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

nonmonotonic logic; conditional probabilities; consequence relations; uncertain inference; preference models; Horn rules; probabilistic thresholds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

03B60: Other nonclassical logic

03A05: Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations

68T37: Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence

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