Common sense and maximum entropy

DOI10.1023/A:1005081609010MaRDI QIDQ1299784zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeff Paris

Publication date 2 November 1999

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

uncertain reasoningcommon sense principlesuncertain knowledge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Reasoning under uncertainty in the context of artificial intelligence (68T37) Theory of languages and software systems (knowledge-based systems, expert systems, etc.) for artificial intelligence (68T35) Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27)

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