A Primer on Rational Consequence Relations, Popper Functions, and Their Ranked Structures

Studia Logica

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 731-749

  Hawthorne, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional probability; Nonmonotonic logic; Popper functions; Rational consequence relations; Uncertain reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906332520     PISSN: 00393215     EISSN: 15728730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11225-013-9523-2     Document Type: Article

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