A Modal Logic For Hypothesis Theory

  • Authors:
  • Camilla Schwind;Pierre Siegel

  • Affiliations:
  • G.I.A., Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, 163, Avenue de Luminy, Case 901, 13288 Marseille, Cedex 9, France;LIUP Université de Provence, 3 pl Victor Hugo, Case G, 13331 Marseille, Cedex 3, France

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Hypothesis theory for nonmonotonic reasoning expresses notions of hypotheses and of known information. In this paper, we define these notions in the framework of a new modal system with two modalities, one for exprressing known information and the other for expressing possible hypotheses. A complete characterization of the new logic is given in terms of Kripke semantics. Moreover, our logic allows to characterize completely default logic, including a necessary and sufficient criterium for the existence and the non-existence of extensions. We also present a notion of nonmonotonic inference which is cumulative.