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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 May 2010
      26 January 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511720161
      9780521497138
      9780521039017
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511720161
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.622kg, 362 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.535kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy of Science, Computer Science, Philosophy, Scientific Computing, Scientific Software
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    This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers in the fields of epistemology and logic offers an account of suppositional reasoning relevant to practical deliberation, explanation, prediction and hypothesis testing. Suppositions made 'for the sake of argument' sometimes conflict with our beliefs, and when they do, some beliefs are rejected and others retained. Thanks to such belief contravention, adding content to a supposition can undermine conclusions reached without it. Subversion can also arise because suppositional reasoning is ampliative. These two types of nonmonotonic logic are the focus of this book. A detailed comparison of nonmonotonicity appropriate to both belief contravening and ampliative suppositional reasoning reveals important differences that have been overlooked.

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    "The book is recommended reading for philosophers and logicians concerned with conditional logics and inductive inference and will interest researchers in artificial intelligence involved in nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision." A. Florea, Computing Reviews

    "The book is recommended reading for hilosophers and logicians concerned with conditional logics and inductive inference and will interest researchers in artificial intelligence involved in nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision." A. Florea, Computing Reviews

    "This is no doubt a major contribution..." Otavio Bueno, Mathematical Reviews

    "This is in itself valuable. Philosophers will find in this book a conscientious and by and large successful attempt to come to terms with some of the basic work in nonmonotonic reasoning, and to render it in language that is familiar to them." Michael Morreau, Jrnl of Philosophy

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