Probabilistic entailment in the setting of coherence: The role of quasi conjunction and inclusion relation

  • Authors:
  • Angelo Gilio;Giuseppe Sanfilippo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l'Ingegneria, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Antonio Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche e Matematiche “S. Vianelli”, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze ed. 13, 90128 Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, by adopting a coherence-based probabilistic approach to default reasoning, we focus the study on the logical operation of quasi conjunction and the Goodman-Nguyen inclusion relation for conditional events. We recall that quasi conjunction is a basic notion for defining consistency of conditional knowledge bases. By deepening some results given in a previous paper we show that, given any finite family of conditional events F and any nonempty subset S of F, the family F p-entails the quasi conjunction C(S); then, given any conditional event E|H, we analyze the equivalence between p-entailment of E|H from F and p-entailment of E|H from C(S), where S is some nonempty subset of F We also illustrate some alternative theorems related with p-consistency and p-entailment. Finally, we deepen the study of the connections between the notions of p-entailment and inclusion relation by introducing for a pair (F,E|H) the (possibly empty) class K of the subsets S of F such that CS implies E|H. We show that the class K satisfies many properties; in particular K is additive and has a greatest element which can be determined by applying a suitable algorithm.