When maximizing entropy gives the rational closure

Journal of Logic and Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-68

  Hill, Lee C ^a   Paris, Jeff B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy; Nonmonotonic logic; Rational closure; Rational consequence

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEMANTICS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NONMONOTONIC LOGIC; RATIONAL CLOSURE; RATIONAL CONSEQUENCE;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 0037328920     PISSN: 0955792X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/logcom/13.1.51     Document Type: Article

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