Conditionals and consequences
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We examine the notion of conditionals and the role of conditionals in inductive logics and arguments. We identify three mistakes commonly made in the study of, or motivation for, non-classical logics. A nonmonotonic consequence relation based on evidential probability is formulated. With respect to this acceptance relation some rules of inference of System P are unsound, and we propose refinements that hold in our framework.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- J. Applied Logic
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007