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Author Schlechta, Karl.

Title Coherent systems / Karl Schlechta.

Imprint Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 447 pages) : illustrations
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Series Studies in logic and practical reasoning ; v. 2
Studies in logic and practical reasoning ; v. 2.
Summary One aspect of common sense reasoning is reasoning about normal cases, e.g. a physician will first try to interpret symptoms by a common disease, and will take more exotic possibilities only later into account. Such "normality" can be encoded, e.g. by a relation, where case A is considered more normal than case B. This gives a standard semantics or interpretation to nonmonotonic reasoning (a branch of common sense reasoning), or, more formally, to nonmonotonic logics. We consider in this book the repercussions such normality relations and similar constructions have on the resulting nonmonotonic logics, i.e. which types of logic are adequate for which kind of relation, etc. We show in this book that some semantics correspond nicely to some logics, but also that other semantics do not correspond to any logics of the usual form. Key features: provides a coherent picture of several formalisms of nonmonotonic logics. gives completeness and incompleteness results for many variants of preferential, distance based, and other semantics. gives probably the first systematic investigation of definability preservation and its consequences. gives new proof techniques for completeness results. is centered on semantics.
Contents Foreword (by David Makinson) -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 : CONCEPTS -- CHAPTER 3 : PREFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4 : DISTANCES -- CHAPTER 5 : DEFINABILITY PRESERVATION -- CHAPTER 6 : SUMS -- CHAPTER 7 : SIZE -- CHAPTER 8 : INTEGRATION -- CHAPTER 9 : CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK -- Index.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439) and index.
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Subject Nonmonotonic reasoning.
Algebraic logic.
Semantics -- Mathematical models.
Modality (Logic)
Raisonnement non-monotone.
Logique algébrique.
Modalité (Logique)
COMPUTERS -- Enterprise Applications -- Business Intelligence Tools.
COMPUTERS -- Intelligence (AI) & Semantics.
Algebraic logic
Modality (Logic)
Nonmonotonic reasoning
Semantics -- Mathematical models
Mathematische Logik
Nichtmonotone Logik
Other Form: Print version: Schlechta, Karl. Coherent systems. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004 0444517898 9780444517890 (DLC) 2004056207 (OCoLC)56356035
ISBN 9780444517890
0444517898
1423709349 (electronic bk.)
9781423709343 (electronic bk.)
0080502199
9780080502199
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DEBSZ 275743381
DEBSZ 430427239
DEBSZ 482351381
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DKDLA 820120-katalog:9910110392505765

 
    
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