Conditionals, Information, and Inference

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Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2005, 2005

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Conditionals are fascinating and versatile objects of knowledge representation. On the one hand, they may express rules in a very general sense, representing, for example, plausible relationships, physical laws, and social norms. On the other hand, as default rules or general implications, they constitute a basic tool for reasoning, even in the presence of uncertainty. In this sense, conditionals are intimately connected both to information and inference. Due to their non-Boolean nature, however, conditionals are not easily dealt with. They are not simply true or false - rather, a conditional 'if A then B' provides a context, A, for B to be plausible (or true) and must not be confused with 'A entails B' or with the material implication 'not A or B.' This ill- trates how conditionals represent information, understood in its strict sense as reduction of uncertainty. To learn that, in the context A, the proposition B is plausible, may reduce uncertainty about B and hence is information. The ab- ity to predict such conditioned propositions is knowledge and as such (earlier) acquired information. The rst work on conditional objects dates back to Boole in the 19th c- tury, and the interest in conditionals was revived in the second half of the 20th century, when the emerging Arti cial Intelligence made claims for appropriate formaltoolstohandle'generalizedrules.'Sincethen,conditionalshavebeenthe topic of countless publications, each emphasizing their relevance for knowledge representation, plausible reasoning, nonmonotonic inference, and belief revision. 236 pp. Englisch.

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Title
Conditionals, Information, and Inference
Author
Gabriele Kern-Isberner
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg Mai 2005
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2005
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Language
English
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9783540253327
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365 grams
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235x155x13 mm

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