Probabilistic Logic under Coherence, Model-Theoretic Probabilistic Logic, and Default Reasoning

• Authors: Veronica Biazzo;Angelo Gilio;Thomas Lukasiewicz;Giuseppe Sanfilippo
• Venue: ECSQARU '01 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
• Year: 2001

We study probabilistic logic under the viewpoint of the coherence principle of de Finetti. In detail, we explore the relationship between coherence-based and model-theoretic probabilistic logic. Interestingly, we show that the notions of g-coherence and of g-coherent entailment can be expressed by combining notions in model-theoretic probabilistic logic with concepts from default reasoning. Crucially, we even show that probabilistic reasoning under coherence is a probabilistic generalization of default reasoning in system P. That is, we provide a new probabilistic semantics for system P, which is neither based on infinitesimal probabilities nor on atomic-bound (or also big-stepped) probabilities. These results also give new insight into default reasoning with conditional objects.