On truth-gaps, bipolar belief and the assertability of vague propositions

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 191-192, Issue , 2012, Pages 20-41

  Lawry, Jonathan ^a   Tang, Yongchuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bipolar belief measures; Integrated uncertainty; Semantic uncertainty; Truth gaps; Vagueness; Valuation pairs

Indexed keywords

BELIEF MEASURES; DECISION-THEORETIC; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FINITE SET; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED MODELS; INTEGRATED UNCERTAINTY; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC; THREE-VALUED LOGIC; TRUTH-GAPS; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES; VAGUENESS;

FORMAL LOGIC; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMANTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864927039     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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