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Basing on Absences

Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When what justifies you in believing a proposition is some evidence you have, you are doxastically justified only if you believe that proposition on the basis of that evidence. According to causal theories of basing, this basing relation must be a causal relation.
Juan Comesaña, Carolina Sartorio
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Ghosting in the Job Market: The Principle of Communicative Reciprocity and the Duty of Transparency

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Niels de Haan
wiley   +1 more source

Inquiry and Logical Form

Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Optimizing the computation of overriding

, 2015
We introduce optimization techniques for reasoning in DLN---a recently introduced family of nonmonotonic description logics whose characterizing features appear well-suited to model the applicative examples naturally arising in biomedical domains and ...
BC Grau, E Sandewall, F Baader, F Baader, FM Donini, G Casini, G Casini, G Casini, L Giordano, L Giordano, PA Bonatti, PA Bonatti, PA Bonatti, PA Bonatti, R Stevens, T Lukasiewicz, TYC Woo, W Drabent   +17 more
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

The Dual Aspects of Legal Reasoning in the Era of Artificial Intelligence - Defeasible Reasoning and Argumentation Scheme

RUDN Journal of Engineering Research
The age of artificial intelligence emphasises the possibility of justification and the dialectical aspects of legal reasoning. The need for validity in legal reasoning mainly stems from the existence of exceptions to rules and conflicts between rules ...
Ze Li, Feiping Lei, Dmitry N. Ermakov, Nina V. Symaniuk, Ilya V. Poletaev, Naofal M.H. Aziz, Ahmed Obaid, Pavel I. Ivanov   +7 more
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Representational change is integral to reasoning. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2023
Bundy A, Li X.
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Model pluralism for logic

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 136-160, March 2026.
Abstract It is well‐recognized in the sciences that a multitude of nonequivalent models are used by researchers to fulfill a range of goals, even for the same target system, a result known broadly as model pluralism. The possibility of the same form of pluralism occurring in logic, however, has not been adequately considered.
Ben Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Rational Force of Analogy/Qiyās in Law

Informal Logic
Analogy is an inherently fragile form of argument, as it derives the conclusion from similarity, while overlooking dissimilarities. Yet law fundamentally depends upon analogical reasoning to ensure consistency and predictability in its rulings.
Muhammed Komath
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Argument-based inductive logics, with coverage of compromised perception. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2023
Bringsjord S, Giancola M, Govindarajulu NS, Slowik J, Oswald J, Bello P, Clark M.   +6 more
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