Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision Consi
Conditionals are omnipresent, in everyday life as well as in scientific environments; they represent generic knowledge acquired inductively or learned from books. They tie a flexible and highly interrelated network of connections along which reasoning is
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen
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Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Conditionals in Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Belief Revision Considering Conditionals as Agents
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Author Gabriele Kern-Isberner FernUniversit¨at Hagen Fachbereich Informatik, LG Praktische Informatik VI Postfach 940, 58084 Hagen E-mail:[email protected]
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Preface
Relationships amongst propositions are crucial pieces of knowledge. They express causal or plausible connections, bring isolated facts together, and help us obtain a coherent image of the world. Such relationships may be represented in a most general form by if-then-conditionals. Conditionals are omnipresent, in everyday life as well as in scientific environments. We make use of conditional knowledge when we avoid puddles on sidewalks (being aware of “If you step into a puddle, then your feet might get wet”) and when we expect high wheat prices from observing cold and rainy weather in spring and summer (due to “If the growing weather is poor then there will be an increase in the price of wheat”). Conditionals represent generic knowledge, acquired inductively from experience or learned from books. They tie a flexible and highly interrelated network
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