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Handling Defeasibilities in Action Domains
, 2002 Representing defeasibility is an important issue in common sense reasoning. In reasoning about action and change, this issue becomes more difficult because domain and action related defeasible information may conflict with general inertia rules ...
Zhang, Yan
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Does Suppositional Reasoning Solve the Bootstrapping Problem? [PDF]
, 2015 In a 2002 article Stewart Cohen advances the “bootstrapping problem” for what he calls “basic justification theories,” and in a 2010 followup he offers a solution to the problem, exploiting the idea that suppositional reasoning may be used with ...
Van Cleve, James
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Embedding Defeasible Logic into Logic Programming
, 2005 Defeasible reasoning is a simple but efficient approach to nonmonotonic reasoning that has recently attracted considerable interest and that has found various applications. Defeasible logic and its variants are an important family of defeasible reasoning
Antoniou, Grigoris +3 more
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, 2017 Defeasible logics provide several linguistic features to support the expression of defeasible knowledge. There is also a wide variety of such logics, expressing different intuitions about defeasible reasoning.
Governatori, Guido, Maher, Michael J.
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Local logics, non-monotonicity and defeasible argumentation [PDF]
, 2004 In this paper we present an embedding of abstract argumentation systems into the framework of Barwise and Seligman’s logic of information flow.We show that, taking P.M.
Bodanza, Gustavo Adrian +1 more
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A System for Modal and Deontic Defeasible Reasoning [PDF]
, 2007 Defeasible reasoning is a well-established nonmonotonic reasoning approach that has recently been combined with semantic web technologies. This paper describes modal and deontic extensions of defeasible logic, motivated by potential applications for ...
Antoniou, Grigoris +2 more
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A puzzle about enkratic reasoning [PDF]
, 2020 Enkratic reasoning—reasoning from believing that you ought to do something to an intention to do that thing—seems good. But there is a puzzle about how it could be. Good reasoning preserves correctness, other things equal. But enkratic reasoning does not
Way, Jonathan
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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Jumping to a Conclusion: Fallacies and Standards of Proof
Informal Logic, 2009 Five errors that fit under the category of jumping to a conclusion are identified: (1) arguing from premises that are insufficient as evidence to prove a conclusion (2) fallacious argument from ignorance, (3) arguing to a wrong conclusion, (4) using ...
Douglas Walton, Thomas F. Gordon
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Why Death Is Most in One's Self‐Interest, and Necessarily So
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most of us think that death is usually not in the self‐interest of the one who dies. Let us momentarily put this belief aside and examine death in a new light. This paper presents a two‐step argument to show why death is most in one's self‐interest, necessarily.
Victor Kriska
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