Nonmonotonic reasoning, preferential models and cumulative logics
Artificial Intelligence
What does a conditional knowledge base entail?
Artificial Intelligence
Nonmonotonic inference based on expectations
Artificial Intelligence
For the sake of the argument: Ramsey test conditionals, inductive inference, and nonmonotonic reasoning
Epistemic conditionals, snakes and stars
Conditionals
A general non-probabilistic theory of inductive reasoning
UAI '88 Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic
Proceedings of the Workshop on The Logic of Theory Change
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Inductive Inference is reasoning that justifies change from one state of full belief or absolute certainty to another by adding new information to the initial state that is consistent with it but does not entail it. Inductive inference is, therefore, ampliative. It is also non monotonic. But the deviations from monotonicity differ from those characterized by belief revision according to Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson or preferential entailment developed by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor and Lehmann and Magidor. The default reasoning of Reiter resembles ampliative reasoning more closely according to the decision theoretic account of inductive expansion proposed in this essay. The paper seeks to explain the differences and why they occur.