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A KLM Perspective on Defeasible Reasoning for Description Logics [PDF]
, 2019 peer reviewedIn this paper we present an approach to defeasible reasoning for the description logic ALC. The results discussed here are based on work done by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor (KLM) on defeasible conditionals in the propositional case.
Katarina Britz +7 more
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Dogmatism and Easy Knowledge: Avoiding the Dialectic?
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes and objects to the anti‐skeptical strategy endorsed by Epistemological Dogmatism. Dogmatism is a theory of epistemic justification that holds perceptual warrant for our beliefs is immediate, based on experiential seemings. Crucially, it rejects requests for higher‐order justification or active defense of the justification ...
Guido Tana
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Diagnostics as a Reasoning Process: From Logic Structure to Software Design
Journal of Computing and Information Technology, 2019 Diagnostic tests are used to determine anomalies in complex systems such as organisms or built structures. Once a set of tests is performed, the experts interpret their results and make decisions based on them. This process is named diagnostic reasoning.
Matteo Cristiani +4 more
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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
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How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
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On Practical Reasoning and Automated Planning
, 2012 Practical reasoning and automated planning are strictly related as they strive to answer to the same question: “which is the best course of action for an agent?” While the first research field addressed this topic mainly from an epistemological point of ...
Vallati, Mauro, Cerutti, Federico
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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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IEEE AccessThis paper introduces TDL-RGTA, a formal Temporal Defeasible Logic framework that enhances Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) by integrating organizational groups and contextual tasks into a dynamic, logic-based authorization model.
Hebah I. Abu Kaf +2 more
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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
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Analogical Reasoning, Defeasible Reasoning, and the Reference Class
, 1989 This paper attempts four things. It demonstrates the possibility of accounting for Russell-style and Clark-style analogical reasoning in an existing framework for statistical reasoning.
Loui, R. P.
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