Probabilistic semantics for Delgrande's conditional logic and a counterexample to his default logic

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 81-95

  Schurz, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Conditional logic; Default logic; Probabilistic semantics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY;

DEFAULT LOGIC; PROBABILISTIC SEMANTICS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 0032091641     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(98)00042-3     Document Type: Article

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