Probabilities and reasoning about possibilities

DOI10.1016/0888-613X(91)90005-7MaRDI QIDQ757347zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Paul E. Lehner

Publication date 1991

Published in International Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0888-613X(91)90005-7

zbMATH Keywords

audaciousnessbelief functionscalibrationcoherencenonmonotonic reasoningpossibilityprobabilistic reasoningreasoning under uncertaintysymbolic reasoning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Other applications of logic (03B80) Logic in artificial intelligence (68T27)

Review text

This paper points out some properties that an inference system reasoning under uncertainty should have: calibration, audaciousness, and coherence. According with these properties the author presents some fundamental aspects of the relationship between probabilistic and symbolic reasoning. The principal result is that symbolic and quantitative approaches interact in interesting, sometimes counterintuitive ways. That it is counterproductive to use an uncertainty calculus to derive belief values instead of possibility ratios.

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